Devotion Quotes - Page 38

• There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christ, Threat, Greater

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• Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Moving, Heart, Curiosity

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• I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me... I do not rely on the patriotism of our people... the bravery and devotion of the boys in blue... (or) the loyalty and skill of our generals... But the God of our fathers, Who raised up this country to be the refuge and asylum of the oppressed and downtrodden of all nations, will not let it perish now. I may not live to see it... I do not expect to see it, but God will bring us through safe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Loyalty, Country, Father

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• Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.

  Cotton Mather

  Mother, Ignorance, Heresy

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• Who can doubt that God created us to be happy, and thereto made us to love one another? It is plainly written as Gospel. The heart is sometimes so embittered that nothing but Divine love can sweeten it, so enraged that devotion can only becalm it, and so broken down that it takes all the forces of heavenly hope to raise it. In short, the religion of Jesus Christ is the only sure and controlling power over sin.

  Francis Marion

  Jesus, Heart, Broken

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• Part of the power of song is that it is a beautiful expression of devotion...singing releases the pent-up joy and thanksgiving we feel because of God's grace and goodness.

  Jack W. Hayford

  Beautiful, Song, Expression

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• Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that's got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes; then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!

  Mark Twain

  Selfish, Mean, Soul

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.108, Penguin

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• As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.

  Philip Yancey

  Despair, Ecclesiastes, Pleasure

  Philip Yancey (2002). “The Bible Jesus Read: An Eight-session Exploration of the Old Testament Participant's Guide”, p.97, Harper Collins

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• The worship practices of the people of God are to be marked by devotion to Him and compassion to the needy.

  Max Anders

  Compassion, Practice, People

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• He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.

  Philip Neri

  Wish, Goods

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.26, St Athanasius Press

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• Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still.

  H. G. Wells

  Wall, Philosophical, Men

  H.G. Wells (2009). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.212, Broadview Press

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• There is absolutely nothing in the Mormon's religion inconsistent with the most patriotic devotion to the government of the United States. Revelation and the commandments of the church require that the Constitution and the laws of the land be upheld. It is also part of our belief that the time will come when the country will be distracted and general lawlessness prevail. Then the Mormon people will step forward and take an active part in rescuing the nation from ruin.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Country, Patriotic, Law

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• Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.

  Jane Austen

  Character, Blessing, Men

  1818 Persuasion, ch.1.

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• I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

  Rosanne Cash

  Art, Children, Profound

  "Rosanne Cash Runs Down Her Father's 'List'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 5, 2009.

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• A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Party, Men, Dry Bones

  1896 A Writer's Notebook (published1949).

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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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• To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my problems

  Pope John XXIII

  Jesus, Blessed, Heart

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• a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.

  Luis de Camoes

  Caring, Jail, Desire

  Luís de Camões (2008). “Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind.

  Paul Russo

  Creating, Leaving, Genius

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• To me, the Craft is what Christianity was 2,000 years ago. It was a religion that was not corrupted. I personally think Jesus was a Crafter. We believe in all the things that he spoke of. The early Christians believed in reincarnation, and that was later removed from the belief system. Early Christians had a female Divinity, and that was taken out of their belief system, or as with Catholicism, replaced with Mary. Look at how incredible the growth in devotion of Mary is. It's amazing. The desire for a female Divinity is not just Wiccan. It speaks of a global need.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  "The Truth about Witchcraft with Silver RavenWolf". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. November 1, 1997.

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• Spinoza , for example, thought that insight into the essence of reality, into the harmonious structure of the eternal universe, necessarily awakens love for this universe. For him, ethical conduct is entirely determined by such insight into nature, just as our devotion to a person may be determined by insight into his greatness or genius. Fears and petty passions, alien to the great love of the universe, which is logos itself, will vanish, according to Spinoza, once our understanding of reality is deep enough.

  Max Horkheimer

  Passion, Reality, Greatness

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.9, A&C Black

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• An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Christ, Proof, Ministers

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 168), 1895.

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