Devotion Quotes - Page 28

• Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Pain, Yoga, Keys

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• People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence.

  R. C. Sproul

  People, Perspective, Understanding

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• The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint

  William Wilberforce

  Prayer, Soul, Grows

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• There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Fall, Men, Pet

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Indian Tales: Ghost Story Collections”, p.3, 谷月社

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• Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dog, Play, Role Models

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• These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

  Michael Cunningham

  Kindness, Believe, Tired

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.18, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Offering, Issues

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• The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, and that, too they would never forget.

  David McCullough

  Country, Fighting, Years

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.643, Simon and Schuster

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• Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.410, Penguin

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• Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.

  Michael Cunningham

  Giving, Extravagance, Youth

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• Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Faces, Wonder

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.

  Timothy Keller

  Powerful, Passion, Thinking

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.164, Penguin

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• Only If there is devotion to knowledge, the 21st century will become India's century and the foundation of that will be laid by the 'Vanche Gujarat' movement.

  Narendra Modi

  Foundation, India, Gujarat

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• Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Vocation, United

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• The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

  Robert Frost

  Positive, Ocean, Heart

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Splendid, Fine, Garments

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1983). “Psalm LXXIX to CIII”

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• The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Competitors

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.47, Discovery House

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• Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'

  Adrian Rogers

  Discipline, Needs, Want

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• The celebration of Lent, in the context of the Year of Faith, offers us a valuable opportunity to meditate on the relationship between faith and charity: between believing in God - the God of Jesus Christ - and love, which is the fruit of the Holy Spirit and which guides us on the path of devotion to God and others.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Believe, Opportunity

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• Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.

  Andy Stanley

  Devotion To God

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• Two conditions that warrant someone's unconditional devotion: 1. Save their life 2. Help them move a pillow top mattress

  Tim Hawkins

  Moving, Two, Helping

  Twitter post from Jul 31, 2013

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• Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Reflection, Identification, Overflow

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.3, Discovery House

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• With the sincere devotion of our employees, Samsung has achieved stellar performances since its foundation.

  Lee Kun-hee

  Foundation, Sincere, Stellar

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• What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mean, Heart, Emotional

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

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• The roots of the Divine are entrenched in this body. If you nurture the roots, how can you avoid the flowering?

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Roots, Body

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