Religious Devotion Quotes

• To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal

  Abdul Kalam

  Motivational, Goal, Succeed

  Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.89, Universities Press

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• The nicest characters in A Week in December research are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Religious, Character, Facts

  "Sebastian Faulks moves to head off Islam row" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2009.

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• Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.

  Ramakrishna

  Religious, Perfection, Lust

  Ramakrishna (1916). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna”

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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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• For years, liberals have demonstrated a near religious devotion to the cause of 'cleaning up elections' with campaign finance reform, the wondrous panacea that would finally rescue our great country from corruption in politics. ... How anyone could believe that corrupt politicians could or would legislate away their own corruption is completely beyond me.

  Anthony Gregory

  Country, Religious, Believe

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• We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.

  Ansel Adams

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Religious

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• The American Constitution is remarkable for its simplicity; but it can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions, and would be utterly inadequate to the wants of a different nation. Change the domestic habits of the Americans, their religious devotion, and their high respect for morality, and it will not be necessary to change a single letter in the Constitution in order to vary the whole form of their government.

  Francis Grund

  Religious, Order, Government

  Francis Grund (2007). “Americans”, p.307, Applewood Books

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• I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions.

  Susanna Wesley

  Religious, One Day, Too Much

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• One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Christian, Religious, Political

  Stephen L. Carter (1993). “The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion”, Basic Books

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