Devotion Quotes - Page 37

• What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.

  Alice Hoffman

  Names, Rose, Soul

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• The relationship between a military working dog and a military dog handler is about as close as a man and a dog can become. You see this loyalty, the devotion, unlike any other and the protectiveness.

  Robert Crais

  Loyalty, Dog, Military

  "THR's Book of the Week: 'Suspect' by Robert Crais" by Andy Lewis, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 14, 2013.

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• Children, we can grow spiritually only if we see the guru as the manifestation of God. We should not accept anyone as guru before we are fully convinced personally that he is authentic and truthful. Once we choose someone as guru, we should surrender completely to him. Only then will spiritual development be possible. Devotion to the guru means total surrender to him.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Mean

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• When doing archana (daily prayers) as a group, one person should chant the mantra and the others should repeat it. Mantras should be chanted slowly, clearly and with devotion.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Prayer, Meditation, Groups

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• Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

  John Henry Newman

  Giving, Inspire, Religion

  John Henry Newman (1852). “Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education: Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin”, p.296

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• Enthusiasm is the thing which makes the world go round. Without its driving power, nothing worth doing has ever been done. Love, friendship, religion, altruism, devotion to career or hobby-all these, and most of the other good things of life, are forms of enthusiasm.

  Robert Haven Schauffler

  Careers, Hobbies, Friendship Love

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• I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  May, Dies

  Arthur Rimbaud (2013). “A Season in Hell & Illuminations”, Modern Library

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• It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind.

  Charles Darwin

  Ideas, Giving, Feelings

  Philip Parker King, Sir Francis Darwin, Robert Fitzroy, Charles Darwin (1839). “Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle: Between the Years 1826 and 1836 ...”, p.29

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• Rabbi Kushner writes from a wealth of Jewish wisdom and pastoral devotion, but his theology is, I find, is wholly in keeping with contemporary Christian thought. So far as there is an answer to the conflict between the goodness of God and the bitterness of suffering, this is it

  Gerald Priestland

  Christian, Writing, Suffering

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• Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Heart, School, Fate

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• Children, if we can do archana of the 1000 Names of the Divine Mother daily with devotion, we will grow spiritually. There will never be lack of life's essentials, food and clothing, in a family that chants the 1000 Names with devotion.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Mother, Children, Names

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• [Do not] overburden yourself with rules of devotion, but persist in doing well those you have, your daily actions, your work; in a word, let everything revolve around doing well what you are doing.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Action, Wells

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• I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Children, Thinking

  "Holistic Politics: A Conversation with Marianne Williamson". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. 1999.

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• I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Love, Sacrifice, June

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• BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that prevents the buildup of fanaticism.

  Rob Brezsny

  God, Acting, Wow

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.267, Frog Books

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• Let us have no further blind devotion to the communist dominated United Nations!

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Blind, Communist, United Nations

  Ezra Taft Benson (1964). “Title of liberty”

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• Devotion means constantly thinking about God or your teacher. It is like always thinking about your beloved.

  Choa Kok Sui

  Teacher, Mean, Thinking About You

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• Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.

  Radhanath Swami

  Way, Poverty, Wealth

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• Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed.

  Radhanath Swami

  Consciousness, Should, Performing

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• Find preachers of David Brainerd's spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Self, Followers

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• The most transformative experiences people have - bliss, devotion, self transcendence - are currently anchored to the worst parts of culture and to ways of thinking that merely amplify superstition, self-deception, and conflict.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Self, People

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• Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.

  Dani Shapiro

  Religious, Mean, Thinking

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• For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art.

  Charles Ives

  Art, Men, Law

  Charles Ives, Stephen Drury (2012). “Piano sonata no. 2: "Concord" : with the Essays before a sonata”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Practice, Beginners

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.56, editionNEXT.com

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• Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted, to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God, who considers God in everything, who serves God in everything, who makes all the parts of his common life, parts of piety, by doing everything in the name of God, and under such rules as are conformable to His glory.

  William Law

  Life, Men, Names

  William Law, P. G. Stanwood (1978). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love”, p.47, Paulist Press

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