Devotion Quotes

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

Devotion is diligence without assurance

When I work, I disappear into work, which I like to do, and sometimes I don't really have a choice. It's not a conscious thing. It's just total devotion to what I'm doing.

It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

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.

The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

Devotion means your involvement with life is no more conditional.

Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

Wishing will not make it so. The Lord expects our thinking. He expects our action. He expects our labors. He expects our testimonies. He expects our devotion.

Through knowledge and devotion, transcend all karma and be free.

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.

To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

[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.

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.

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

I think the level of devotion some sci-fi fans display turns other people off.

Knowledge without devotion to God produces hatred.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Only If there is devotion to knowledge, the 21st century will become India's century and the foundation of that will be laid by the 'Vanche Gujarat' movement.

Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion.

Only when we see that sacred, unadorned child of our devotion-the Babe of Bethlehem-will we know why the giving of gifts is so appropriate

Almighty Framer of the Skies!O let our pure devotion rise,Like Incense in thy Sight!Wrapt in impenetrable Shade,The Texture of our Souls were made,Till thy Command gave Light.

I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.

Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.

Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.

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

... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.

Your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these are the things that count in life.

See the Divine in everyone. Eschew hatred and ill will. After years of devotion, many still lack a broad outlook and an all-encompassing love.

Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.

The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.

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.

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

The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint

Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?

A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.