Devotion Quotes - Page 38

• No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Honor, Peers

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• You must do the asana with your soul. How can you do an asana with your soul? We can only do it with the organ of the body that is closest to the soul - the heart. So a virtuous asana is done from the heart and not from the head. Then you are not just doing it, but you are in it. Many people try to think their way into an asana, but you must instead feel your way into it through love and devotion

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Heart, Thinking, People

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.63, Rodale

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Differences, Devotion To God

  James Hudson Taylor (1900). “Separation and Service or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII.”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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

  Cotton Mather

  Mother, Ignorance, Heresy

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

  Oswald Chambers

  Christ, Threat, Greater

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• Godly enthusiasm is not a fire of our own kindling...If a man, however, has caught fire, let me not quench the Spirit by dampening the ardor of his pure devotion. Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason; it is reason - on fire.

  Peter Marshall

  Godly, Men, Fire

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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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• What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

  Moliere

  Names, Giving, Hypocrisy

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• Nothing will carry you through hardship like a sincere devotion to Christ.

  T. B. Joshua

  Hardship, Christ, Sincere

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• Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Money, Cost, Lifetime

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.233, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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