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• RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Truth, Light

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.192, University of Georgia Press

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• Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Art, Morality, Virtue

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• I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

  Frederick Busch

  Years, Fiction, Certain

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• He bends over to untie his shoes. “So, have you been ostracized from your little crowd of devotees?” “No,” I say automatically. Then I add, “Maybe. But they aren’t my devotees.” “Please. They’re like the Cult of Four.” I can’t help but laugh. “Jealous? Wish you had a Cult of Psychopaths to call your very own?

  Veronica Roth

  Jealous, Shoes, Laughing

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• Look after everybody So that they are happy to see you. It is better to serve the devotee of god than to serve god himself.

  H. W. L. Poonja

  Love, Truth, Looks

  H. W. L. Poonja, Prashanti De Jager (2000). “The Truth Is”, p.63, Weiser Books

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• The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tolerance, Religion, Different

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Art, Responsibility, Chess

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• I have come to light the lamp of Love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster. I have not come on behalf of any exclusive religion. I have not come on a mission of publicity for a sect or creed or cause, nor have I come to collect followers for a doctrine. I have no plan to attract disciples or devotees into my fold or any fold. I have come to tell you of this unitary faith, this spiritual principle, this path of Love, this virtue of Love, this duty of Love, this obligation of Love.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love, Spiritual, Heart

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jun 29, 2013

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• Indian spirituality, proclaimed that the true Godhead was beyond number and count; that it had many manifestations which did not exclude or repel each other but included each other, and went together in friendship; that it was approached in different ways and through many symbols; that it resided in the hearts of its devotees. Here there were no chosen people, no exclusive prophethoods, no privileged churches and fraternities and ummas. The message was subversive of all religions based on exclusive claims.

  Ram Swarup

  Heart, Numbers, People

  Ram Swarup (1992). “Hindu View of Christianity and Islam”

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• Twenty-four hours a day one looks for contentment in eight different directions but one must also explore the ninth place, which is to their own body and contemplate within. Within the body are the nine treasures of the Name of the Lord—seek the depths of these virtues. Those blessed with the karma of good actions praise the Lord and become true devotees

  Guru Angad

  Karma, Blessed, Names

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• You really have to wonder how long it will take for Tea Party devotees to realize just how badly they are being used.

  Rick Ungar

  Party, Long, Tea

  "Koch Brothers Behind Wisconsin Effort To Kill Public Unions". www.forbes.com. February 18, 2011.

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• Only those who love color are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper mysteries only to its devotees.

  Johannes Itten

  Color, Mystery, Deeper

  Johannes Itten (1961). “Kunst der Farbe”, Reinhold Pub. Corp

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• What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge of imagination-of imagination which broke the roadway through the forest in order that cold logic might follow.

  David Eugene Smith

  Education, Math, Discovery

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• When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

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• He that distributeth not That which he hath received-- His food, his drink, his sustenance-- Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer-- Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain.

  Gautama Buddha

  Rain, Men, Giving

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• Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord's Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him and, as a result, profound inner inquiry blossoms forth.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Light, Profound, Deep Thought

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• You can think your self to be great, you can go on thinking your self to be great, till you see all fellow devotees going Back Home Back to Godhead, while you remain in this material world only.

  Radhanath Swami

  Humility, Home, Thinking

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• The essence of Bhagavad Gita is that we should always think of Krsna, become His devotee, worship him and offer homage unto him.

  Radhanath Swami

  Thinking, Essence, Gita

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• Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your heart if you let it. It will fill your pages and help to fill your life.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Heart, Profound

  Julia Cameron (2001). “The Writer's Life: Insights from The Right to Write”, p.13, Penguin

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• Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a remarkable ability to withstand and absorb those changes, and to prove wrong the prophecies of their demise.

  A. O. Scott

  Art, Causes, Demise

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• At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.

  Ramakrishna

  Satisfaction, Path, Devotion

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• Were it not for the mind change of Sai devotees the world would already have fallen into complete chaos. The deterioration of mind and man has been very rapid and abrupt, even precipitous during the last fifteen years. That the world is not in total destruction is due to the change of mind of Sai devotees and to Sai's grace.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Years, Grace

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• If the Christ we follow sent out his disciples with no extra possessions (Luke 9:1-6 and 10:1-12) and warned would-be devotees that he had nowhere to lay his head (see Luke 9:57-62), then we must recognize that it is extremely difficult to live in a Christian way in a consumer culture.

  Marva Dawn

  Christian, Would Be, Culture

  Marva J. Dawn (1999). “A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World”, p.88, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Hands, Ideas, Issues

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• Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.

  Chanakya

  Merit, Devotion, Lord

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