For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.
I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.
On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.