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• Pray earnestly and fast with purpose and devotion. Some difficulties, like devils, do not come out save by fasting and by prayer. Ask in righteousness and you shall receive. Knock with conviction and it shall be opened unto you.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Prayer, Devil, Fasting

  Jeffrey R. Holland (1985). “However Long and Hard the Road”, Deseret Book Co

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• I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Book, Heart

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.223, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Be a woman of Christ. Cherish your esteemed place in the sight of God. He needs you. This church needs you. The world needs you. A woman's abiding trust in God and unfailing devotion to things of the Spirit have always been an anchor when the wind and the waves of life were fiercest.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Wave Of Life, Sight, Anchors

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• Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid; and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease!

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Ignorance, Men, Intelligent

  Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois' speech, www.scotsman.com. October 20, 1946.

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• You’re in my every breath and every thought, intertwined so deep inside me that love’s not a strong enough word—you have my devotion, your name branded on my soul, my wolf yours to command. A hundred years? It’ll never be enough. I want eternity.

  Nalini Singh

  Strong, Years, Names

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Kiss of Snow”, p.346, Penguin

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• All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspiration, Age, Genius

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• The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage--who can tell?--but truth--truth stripped of its cloak of time.

  Joseph Conrad

  Past, Men, Joy

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.43, Xist Publishing

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• I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

  Jodi Picoult

  Butterfly, Hands, Dying

  Jodi Picoult (1995). “Harvesting the Heart: A Novel”, p.235, Penguin

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• Abe glanced at Rose. "You see that?" he said. "Now that's devotion." She rolled her eyes at him.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Rose, Said

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.40, Penguin

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• Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Worship, Form, Duty

  Swami Vivekananda (1990). “Awakened India”

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• I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal into their hearts, I scrutinize their most fundamental beliefs, I scan their irrational impulses, their unspeakable emotions, I sleep in their lungs during the summer and their muscles during the winter, and all of this I do without the least effort, without intending to, without asking or seeking it out, without constraints, driven only by love and devotion.

  Roberto Bolano

  Summer, Dream, Sleep

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• Great things are wrought through simple and small things. Like the small flecks of gold that accumulate over time into a large treasure, our small and simple acts of kindness and service will accumulate into a life filled with love for Heavenly Father, devotion to the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a sense of peace and joy each time we reach out to one another.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Jesus, Kindness, Father

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• According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually

  Bill McKibben

  Growth, Balance, Research

  "Money ? Happiness. QED." by Bill McKibben, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2007.

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• A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

  Ayn Rand

  Cheating, Truth, Responsibility

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.961, Penguin

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• In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the bond of human affections is extended and loosened.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Democracy, Affection

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). “Democracy in America”, p.483, University of Chicago Press

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• The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. In all our heart; that is, in all our understanding without erring. In all our soul; that is, in all our will without gainsaying. In all our their ought; that is, that we think on Him without forgetting. In this manner is very love and true, that is work of man's will. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

  Richard Rolle

  Jesus, Heart, Love Is

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• The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

  Winston Churchill

  Gratitude, War, Home

  Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940

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• What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Mind, Wish

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• I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased if I could announce a motive of lofty purpose. I've been accused of compassion, of altruism, of devotion to Christian, Hebrew, and Muslim ethic, but however desperate I am to claim ownership of a high ideal, I cannot. I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck; the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others, made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.

  Paul Newman

  Christian, Children, Thinking

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• Attention is the beginning of devotion.

  Mary Oliver

  Motivational, Attention, Will Power

  Mary Oliver (2016). “Upstream: Selected Essays”, p.11, Penguin

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• The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Goal, Life Is

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• No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.

  Charles Babbage

  Degrees, Lasts, Measurement

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.119, Cambridge University Press

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• Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.

  John Stott

  Powerful, Philosophy, Imagination

  John Stott (2013). “Your Mind Matters: The Place of the Mind in the Christian Life”, p.19, InterVarsity Press

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• The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stars, Night, Sorrow

  "To - : One word is too often profaned" l. 13 (1824)

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• These ceremonies which are used in the administration of the Sacraments, each of which we receive as delivered and entrusted to us through the hands of the fathers, must especially be retained and observed with great devotion.

  Peter Canisius

  Father, Hands, Administration

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