Devotion Quotes - Page 29

• For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Offering, Important

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• It is not because there is God that devotion has come; because there is devotion, there is God.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Divinity

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• Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Giving Up, And Love

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• Devotion means who you are should merge with what you are doing. Otherwise, whatever your activity may be, it will not be of any great significance.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Mean, Divinity

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• If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Thinking, Talking

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• Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.

  Yann Martel

  Christian, Religion, Devotion To God

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Devotion as an act is vulgar. Devotion as a way of life is wonderful. If you are a great devotee, it is ugly. If you are devout, it is beautiful.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Ugly

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• Devotion is a tool to dissolve yourself into nothingness and become the very hand of the Divine.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Hands, Tools

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• Devotion is the spark that can fire up your chemistry and energy to such a level that it creates an explosion of ecstasy within you.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Fire, Energy

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• Devotion means a profusion of life.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Mean, Divinity

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• A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Growing, Purity

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.76, CCEL

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• A man is no true Christian if he has no devotion to the Mother of Jesus Christ.

  John Eudes

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

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• We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.

  Adam Clarke

  Happiness, Sacrifice, Self

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• The more one makes spiritual advancement, one feels humble and as one's devotion is superficial that much he feels that he is a great devotee.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Humility, Humble

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• To develop genuine devotion, you must know the meaning of teachings. The main emphasis in Buddhism is to transform the mind, and this transformation depends upon meditation. in order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

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• To struggle is difficult but to surrender is easy. Surrender is the beginning of devotion.

  Bhakti Charu Swami

  Struggle, Spirituality, Surrender

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• All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. The palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Eye, Men

  Letter to Roger C.Weightman, 24 June 1826.

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• The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.

  Merce Cunningham

  Dance, Ballet Class, Discipline

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• The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Prayer, Important

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• We must conclude that, being necessary to God by a necessity which is called "hypothetical", (that is, because God so willed it), the Blessed Virgin is all the more necessary for men to attain their final end. Consequently we must not place devotion to her on the same level as devotion to the other saints as if it were merely something optional.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Blessed, Men

  Saint Louis de Montfort (2016). “True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort”, p.25, Danka

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• The pious and learned Jesuit, Suarez, Justus Lipsius, a devout and erudite theologian of Louvain, and many others have proved incontestably that devotion to our Blessed Lady is necessary to attain salvation.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Blessed, Holy Mary

  Saint Louis de Montfort (2016). “True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort”, p.25, Danka

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• Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Military, Skills, Victory

  Commander in Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC) Communique No. 3 after the Battle of Midway, June 6, 1942.

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• The sterner the discipline, the greater the devotion.

  Pete Carril

  Inspirational, Sports, Volleyball

  Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.104, U of Nebraska Press

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• I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Good Luck, Ghetto, Sacrifice

  Address to the Officers and Men of the Third Armored Division, www.3ad.com. June 02, 1944.

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• Ever since Blessed Alan de la Roche re-established this devotion the voice of the people, which is the voice of God, called it the Rosary. The word Rosary means "Crown of Roses" that is to say that every time people say the Rosary devoutly they place a crown of one hundred and fifty-three red roses and sixteen white roses upon the heads of Jesus and Mary. Being heavenly flowers these roses will never fade or lose their exquisite beauty.

  Louis de Montfort

  Jesus, Flower, Blessed

  St. Louis de Montfort (1983). “The Secret of the Rosary”, p.27, TAN Books

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