Excessive Devotion Quotes

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.

I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.

Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

I love 'Sky Whale!' I play it in bed, I play it in church, I even play it on the toilet!

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

You're so in love with your children that you'd do anything for them; that's not necessarily the best thing.

Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

Nationalism is like alcoholism: a short period of exaltation followed by a long period of headaches.

Of my old tendency to overdo the dedication and deface the title page with florid compliments and obscure quotes which the recipient cannot read, I will say only that I learnt my lesson when I had to shell out with my own money for a hardback I'd vandalised and now limit myself to 'Good wishes.'