Devotion Quotes - Page 35

• What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Distinction, Admire

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2690, Delphi Classics

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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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• By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Mean, People

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

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• We have to surrender ourselves completely to the Lord with faith and devotion in Him, serve others to the best of our capacity, and never be a source of sorrow to anybody.

  Sarada Devi

  Sorrow, Surrender, Lord

  "The Holy Mother's Reminiscences". "Vedanta Kesari" Magazine,

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• whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

  Henri Barbusse

  Ignorance, Study, Humans

  Henri Barbusse (2009). “The Inferno”, p.236, The Floating Press

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• Pontus, instituted among all people, as an addition or corollary of devotion towards God, that festival days and assemblies should be celebrated to them who had contended for the faith (that is, to lie martyrs ).

  Isaac Newton

  Lying, People, Festivals

  "Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John". Volume 1, p. 204, 1733.

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• Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life , given to search for truthand to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas .

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ideas, Goal, People

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• If I was told to sacrifice something to prove my devotion to God, if I was told to do what all monotheists are told to do and admire the man who said 'Yes I'll gut my kid to show my love of God.'

  Christopher Hitchens

  Kids, Sacrifice, Men

  "Thank you, Mr. Hitchens" by Raheem Kassam, www.thecommentator.com. December 16, 2011.

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• There is a lot of difference between offering a garland of flowers bought from a shop and one that we make out of flowers picked from our home garden. When we plant the flowers, water them, pick the flowers, make the garland and take it to the temple, thoughts of God alone live in our minds. The Lord accepts anything offered to Him with intense Love. When we buy a garland at a store and place it on the deity it is only a ceremonial act while the other is a garland of pure devotion and an act of love.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Flower, Home

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• The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as "I am such an important man" or "I am so and so". Level the mound of "I" to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.

  Ramakrishna

  Men, Ideas, Important

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious , and we must never trumpet it as such.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Sacrifice

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.

  Anthony Trollope

  Struggle, Self, Fire

  Anthony Trollope (1859). “The Bertrams: A novel”, p.350

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• So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God - forms or symbols, names, God-men. All religions have these, but you find that they want to fight with each other...These are the external forms of devotion, through which man has to pass; but if he is sincere, if he really wants to reach the truth, he goes higher than these, to a plane where forms are as nothing.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fighting, Men, Names

  "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Vol. 2". Book by Swami Vivekananda, p. 42, 1963.

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• A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help.

  Lionel Shriver

  Lying, Successful, World

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.175, Counterpoint Press

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• If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase.

  Pope Paul VI

  People, Evil, Increase

  "Christi Matri". Encyclical Of Pope Paul VI On Prayers For Peace During October, w2.vatican.va. September 15, 1966.

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• Almighty Framer of the Skies!O let our pure devotion rise,Like Incense in thy Sight!Wrapt in impenetrable Shade,The Texture of our Souls were made,Till thy Command gave Light.

  Thomas Chatterton

  Sky, Light, Sight

  Thomas Chatterton, Charles Bonnycastle Willcox (1842). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton: Acknowledged poems. Chatterton's will. Miscellaneous prose works”, p.324

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• With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist.

  Jacques Maritain

  Atheist, Saint, Sincerity

  Jacques Maritain (1966). “A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings”

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• I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Play, Long

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• "The best form of devotion to the service of Allah is not to make a show of it."

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Religious, Religion, Form

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• My brothers and my sisters, do always persevere in true and earnest prayer, and the Lord will hear you. Believe that the highest revelations of science are conformable to the doctrine of the efficacy of prayer; that in this doctrine the highest philosophy harmonizes with the purest devotion.

  Keshub Chandra Sen

  Brother, Prayer, Philosophy

  Sermon at Hackney Unitarian Church, London, April 24, 1870.

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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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• There is no short cut to God; sadhana must be performed regularly and with devotion. It is our own effort which will enable us to experience the grace of God which is being showered on us all the time. Therefore, whatever spare time you get, use it to seek God. If you create peace in your own heart by doing sadhana, then that will have a positive effect on your family, your work and so on. The peace and love of God will overflow out of your heart and encourage others to move on the right path.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Moving, Heart, Cutting

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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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• The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their souls. On the one hand, there is the happiness which comes from wealth, honor, the enjoyment of life, from health, culture, science, or art; and, on the other hand, there is the happiness which is to be found in a good conscience, in virtue, work, philanthropy, religion, devotion to great ideas and great deeds.

  Carl Hilty

  Art, Lying, Journey

  Carl Hilty (2013). “Happiness - Essays On The Meaning Of Life”, p.56, Read Books Ltd

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