Devotion famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
You proved to be worthy of my devotion. Of Death’s...love
-- Abbi Glines -
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal
-- Abdul Kalam -
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
-- Adela Florence Nicolson -
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
-- Agnes Martin -
In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
-- Alain de Botton -
Despair the twin-born of devotion.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
"The best form of devotion to the service of Allah is not to make a show of it."
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Either melt by devotion the sense of separateness, or burn it by knowledge-for what is it that melts or burns? Only that which by its nature can be melted or burnt; namely the idea that something other than your Self exists. What will happen then? You come to know your Self.
-- Anandamayi Ma -
The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.
-- Aristotle -
I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life , and that unless contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs.
-- Bertrand Russell -
You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.
-- Brandon Sanderson -
Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.
-- Brother Lawrence -
The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.
-- Carol Bly -
I have a lifelong devotion to public service.
-- Caroline Kennedy -
Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
The results of action depends upon the very quality of the action.
-- Chinmayananda Saraswati -
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Indian standards of artistry, and Indian standards of humanity, and Indian standards of love, and of family, devotion, commitment, stand for me as the standard for how one should behave.
-- Clark Blaise -
For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort.
-- Compton Mackenzie -
Are We Going to die in our religion or are we going to die in our devotion?
-- David Platt -
Devotion is diligence without assurance
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are.
-- Frank Laubach -
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.
-- George Orwell -
whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.
-- Henri Barbusse -
No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ.
-- Henry Allen Ironside -
An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.
-- Henry Clay Trumbull -
To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.
-- Honore de Balzac -
In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.
-- Israel Shenker -
Their devotion showed me there were no versions of love there was only... Love. That it had no equal and that it was worth searching for, even if that search took a lifetime.
-- Jennifer Worth -
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
-- John Dryden -
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
-- John Ortberg -
Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
-- Jonathan Swift -
The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart.
-- K. Pattabhi Jois -
I wish I can enjoy no food but food for thought.
-- Kedar Joshi -
True love is like religion. It is full of devotion and free of doubt.
-- Kedar Joshi -
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
-- Krishna Das -
I make intelligence cool. I make spirituality cool. If we can make one's devotion to God cool, then I think I did a great thing. I can rest in peace.
-- KRS-One -
With the sincere devotion of our employees, Samsung has achieved stellar performances since its foundation.
-- Lee Kun-hee -
My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.
-- Lena Dunham -
Its from the deep waters that we come. And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters. We come with an unflinching devotion to the mystical and to God - representing life and embracing death.
-- Lisa Bonet -
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
-- Marguerite Young -
You, too, can be carved anew by the details of your devotion.
-- Mary Oliver -
God first seeks devotion to Him in the hidden place–worship when no one else is watching.
-- Matt Redman -
I don't know if you realize it or not, but your sudden devotion to her is creepy.
-- Melissa Marr -
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
-- Muhammad Ali Jinnah -
Religion to me is devotion to work and devotedly working is being religious.
-- Narendra Modi -
The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.
-- Oswald Chambers -
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.
-- Oswald Chambers -
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.
-- Oswald Chambers -
The athlete must make a devotion of his specialty.
-- Paavo Nurmi -
The most Superior amongst the colors in the universe is the color of Devotion.
-- Pandurang Shastri Athavale -
Devotion (Bhakti) includes Sentimental Devotion (Bhav Bhakti) and Devotion through action (Kruti Bhakti).
-- Pandurang Shastri Athavale -
Knowledge, Action and Devotion are complementary to each other.
-- Pandurang Shastri Athavale -
Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove.
-- Patrick Nielsen Hayden -
When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about—more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.
-- Peg Bracken -
The sterner the discipline, the greater the devotion.
-- Pete Carril -
One grain of incense with devotion offer'd 'S beyond all perfumes of Sabaean spices.
-- Philip Massinger -
Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary
-- Pope Francis -
The devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions.
-- Pope Leo XIII -
If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase.
-- Pope Paul VI -
Whether you do your work with notes or without them, do it courageously, earnestly, with devotion; with a glad sense of the greatness of it, and a full consecration of every force and faculty to it.
-- Richard Salter Storrs -
Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
-- Richard Wright -
With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.
-- Rumi -
Even the impossible becomes possible through devotion.
-- Sarada Devi -
Faith is the subject of the head. Devotion is the subject of the heart and meditation connects both.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar -
Through knowledge and devotion, transcend all karma and be free.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar -
Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.
-- Thomas Aquinas -
Complete self-devotion is woman's part.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.
-- Vera Brittain -
Other people's devotions embarrassed me, perhaps because, like other people's kisses, they rarely looked genuine when viewed too closely.
-- Walter Kirn -
The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion.
-- Washington Irving -
[Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.
-- William J. Clinton -
The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint
-- William Wilberforce -
Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.
-- Anthony Standen -
Religion is a major player in the poaching crisis. We've ignored it, we've accorded religion too much respect in this regard, and we've placed devotion above slaughter.
-- Brent Stirton -
Those who have had the most impact and influence throughout history and certainly the people who've had the most impact and influence on me personally have been basically entirely unaware of any such influence and made their chief concern their personal devotion and obedience, and the pleasure of God in the hidden things of their lives.
-- Brooke Fraser -
Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.
-- Charles Williams -
Mrs Thatcher requires devotion as well as obedience.
-- Julian Critchley
