Devotion Quotes - Page 34

• I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.

  Kiki Smith

  Yale, Pissed Off, Half

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• The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.

  Chanakya

  Husband, Cuckoos, Asceticism

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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, Lord, Offspring

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• The fact that you are here tonight gathered together with us testifies to the fact you understand the need for this organization and the need for redoubling our efforts in this organization to try to assure that democracy as represented by the United States must depend upon a total freedom of religion, which is written into our Constitution, of course, and the mere suggestion that anyone could maintain that one's patriotism, one's devotion to one's country can be judged by one's religion is so vile, so vile that we have to take to the streets indeed and to put it aside.

  Walter Cronkite

  God, Country, Organization

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• If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Holy Eucharist, Saint

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• One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Feelings, Saint, Done

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• All true and living devotion presupposes the love of God and indeed it is neither more nor less than a very real love of God, though not always of the same kind; for that Love one while shining on the soul we call grace, which makes us acceptable to His Divine Majesty; when it strengthens us to do well, it is called Charity; but when it attains its fullest perfection, in which it not only leads us to do well, but to act carefully, diligently, and promptly, then it is called Devotion.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Real, Perfection, Shining

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• Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Rights, Law, Land

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.202, Best Books on

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• Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Navy, Submarines

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• Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. So that might be creativity, family, invention, adventure, faith, service, it might be raising corgies, I don't know - Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Motivational, Love You, Adventure

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• Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Perfect, Confusion

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• Instead of man to love, we have a man-god to worship . From being the example of devotion, he is its object; the religion of Christ ended with his life , and left us instead but the Christian religion.

  James Anthony Froude

  Christian, Men, Example

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.87

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• It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Dedication

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• There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment-- Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.

  Richard Armour

  Love, Pain, Disappointment

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• It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Passionate, Unions, Facts

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• The call of God is to preach the gospel--namely, the reality of redemption in our Lord Jesus Christ. The one passion of Paul's life was to proclaim the gospel of God. He welcomed heartbreak, disillusionment , and tribulation for only one reason--these things kept him unmovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Passion, Reality

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is abundance of hearing, reading, talking, professing, visiting, contributing to the poor and teaching at schools. But is there, together with all this, a due proportion of private prayer? Are believing men and women sufficiently careful to be frequently alone with God?

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Prayer, Believe

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• Students from the same teacher will differ in their skills

  Yip Man

  Teacher, Skills, Students

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• It should be for satsang that we go to spiritual centers. By going there, people who are involved in the world can attain peace and concentration. The concentration gained when one goes there cannot be achieved if one sits at home. Even though the breeze blows everywhere, coolness will be felt more if we sit in the shade of a tree. In the same way, although God is all-pervading, this presence will clearly shine in certain places more than others. That is the greatness of satsang. Satsang is the best thing for spiritual advancement.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Home, Blow

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• The results of action depends upon the very quality of the action.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Quality, Action, Results

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• I wish I can enjoy no food but food for thought.

  Kedar Joshi

  Wish, Enjoy, I Can

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• Devotion (Bhakti) includes Sentimental Devotion (Bhav Bhakti) and Devotion through action (Kruti Bhakti).

  Pandurang Shastri Athavale

  Sentimental, Action, Bhakti

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• To achieve progress and development it is necessary to bring about co-ordination between liberty and security through Devotion.

  Pandurang Shastri Athavale

  Progress, Liberty, Development

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• Devotion is the realization that wealth, education and power are God given gifts and not the endowments of fate.

  Pandurang Shastri Athavale

  Fate, Realization, Wealth

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• By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions and tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled 'good' or 'bad'...By 'patriotism' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power.

  George Orwell

  Block, Believe, Mean

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