Devotional Quotes - Page 2

• Love God. Live Called. It's not just devotional, it's vocational!

  Brian Houston

  God Love

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• Enthusiasm and eagerness give life to our devotional service.

  Radhanath Swami

  Giving, Enthusiasm, Eagerness

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• The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works

  Pope Pius X

  Blessed, Practice, Fountainhead

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• Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice

  Kripalvananda

  Spiritual, Song, Yoga

  "The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom". Book edited by Kelsie Besaw, 2014.

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• One remarkable feature of the devotional masters is the incredible sense of uniform witness in the midst of such diverse personalities... and the necessity of Christian simplicity is one of their most consistent themes.

  Richard J. Foster

  Christian, Simple, Simplicity

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.

  Bayard Taylor

  Jerusalem, Emotion, Assuming

  Bayard Taylor (1862). “Prose Writings of Bayard Taylor ...”, p.85

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• One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.

  N. T. Wright

  Depressing, Real, Taken

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• The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily and gracefully satisfied seem like a more refined pleasure. Their conception of creation is peaceful as a dream.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Luxury, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

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• So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what he is noticing, continuous alertness to catch himself thinking or seeing, devotional attentiveness to the world he's moving through.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Moving, Thinking, Artist

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• Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be a devotional novelist.

  Richard Grossman

  Novelists, Poet, Individual

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Humility is not a part of devotional service, it is the heart of devotional service.

  Radhanath Swami

  Heart, Humility

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• I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

  Barbara Pym

  Book, Reading, Hands

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• There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

  C. S. Lewis

  Differences, Church, Vices

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We need to be realistic and recognize that there will be times when we won't be sharing our faith out of an overwhelming sense of joy. When that happens, that's a call to look at our own devotional lives. Are we putting our hearts and minds before the Lord and under his cross everyday? Do we remind ourselves continually that we have been ransomed by the death of the Saviour? When we meditate on Christ's death for us, it doesn't mean that we never have struggles in our obedience, but it does help.

  Mark Dever

  Struggle, Heart, Mean

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Sixty Minutes, Tests

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.152, Discovery House

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• When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Wish, Looks

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("Postscript: Christianity & Art"), (p. 461), 1962.

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• God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation.

  Charles Brent

  Prayer, Profound, Silence

  Charles Henry Brent (1914). “With God in the World: A Series of Papers”

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• I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting, or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, these spiritual repasts-a grace before Milton-a grace before Shakespeare-a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading The Fairie Queene?

  Charles Lamb

  Spiritual, Book, Reading

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H”, p.108

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• The Christian's life in all its aspects-intellectual and ethical, devotional and relational, upsurging in worship and outgoing in witness-is supernatural; only the Spirit can initiate and sustain it. So apart from him, not only will there be no lively believers and no lively congregations, there will be no believers and no congregations at all.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Intellectual, Spirit

  J. I. Packer (2005). “Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God”, p.15, Baker Books

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• We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.

  William Griffith Thomas

  Christian, Spiritual, People

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• I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating.

  Frederick Buechner

  Fun, Giving, Want

  Source: www.jmm.org.au

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• Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bonafide spiritual master by the grace of Krishna. By the mercy of both Krishna and the spiritual masters, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Grace

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• I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began reading books on cognitive therapy and neuroscience and started studying the devotional traditions of the church.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Prayer, Book, Reading

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• Rather, it is the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts our given situation. When film does this, when it subverts our absorption in the temporal and reveals the depths of our own reality, it opens us to a fuller sense of ourselves and our world. It is alive as a devotional form.

  Nathaniel Dorsky

  Heart, Reality, Our World

  Nathaniel Dorsky (2003). “Devotional Cinema”

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• Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.

  Kiki Smith

  Spiritual, Thinking, Quality

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