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> [Prayer is self-discipline. The effort to realize the presence and power of God stretches the sinews of the soul and hardens its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-marinus-zwemer/prayer-is-self-discipline-the-effort-to-realize-the-presence-and/)

[Samuel Marinus Zwemer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-marinus-zwemer/)

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> [Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/novelty-may-fix-our-attention-not-even-on-the-service-but-on-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/science-is-a-match-that-man-has-just-got-alight-he-thought-he-was-in/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The word ‘holiday’ comes from ‘holy day’ and holy means ‘exalted and worthy of complete devotion.’ By that definition, all days are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penn-jillette/the-word-holiday-comes-from-holy-day-and-holy-means-exalted-and/)

[Penn Jillette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penn-jillette/)

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> [Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/gratitude-is-one-of-the-least-articulate-of-the-emotions-especially-2/)

[Felix Frankfurter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-frankfurter/)

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> [I had just finished a run of shows in the States and went to NY to work with BenZel for a couple…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessie-ware/i-had-just-finished-a-run-of-shows-in-the-states-and-went-to-ny-to/)

[Jessie Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessie-ware/)

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> [Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oprah-winfrey/dogs-are-my-favorite-role-models-i-want-to-work-like-a-dog-doing-what/)

[Oprah Winfrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oprah-winfrey/)

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> [Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in……](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/without-love-even-the-most-radical-devotion-to-god-is-of-no-value-to/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-fuller/i-have-urged-on-woman-independence-of-man-not-that-i-do-not-think-the/)

[Margaret Fuller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-fuller/)

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> [Devotion is the essence of the path, and if we have in mind nothing but the guru and feel nothing but fervent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dilgo-khyentse-rinpoche/devotion-is-the-essence-of-the-path-and-if-we-have-in-mind-nothing/)

[Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dilgo-khyentse-rinpoche/)

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> [Soul mates are those one in million who have perfect chemistry. They know what makes their partner cry and what makes them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ritu-ghatourey/soul-mates-are-those-one-in-million-who-have-perfect-chemistry-they/)

[Ritu Ghatourey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ritu-ghatourey/)

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> [About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/about-mike-the-construction-worker-friend-of-roark-he-worshipped/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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> [Being with someone is finding someone who brings out the very best in you, not the worst in you. Someone who isn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/telisa-mclaughlin/being-with-someone-is-finding-someone-who-brings-out-the-very-best-in/)

[Telisa McLaughlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/telisa-mclaughlin/)

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> [So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/so-we-find-that-in-almost-every-religion-these-are-the-three-primary/)

[Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/)

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> [There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/there-is-need-of-a-great-revival-of-spiritual-life-of-truly-fervent/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Your heart of devotion and obedience is not in vain. Who knows but God how many people have come near to you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-layne-litzelman/your-heart-of-devotion-and-obedience-is-not-in-vain-who-knows-but-god/)

[Amy Layne Litzelman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-layne-litzelman/)

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> [Devotion {to the spiritual master} becomes the purest, quickest, and simplest way to realize the nature of our mind and all things.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sogyal-rinpoche/devotion-to-the-spiritual-master-becomes-the-purest-quickest-and/)

[Sogyal Rinpoche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sogyal-rinpoche/)

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> [It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alphonsus-rodriguez/it-is-a-common-teaching-of-the-saints-that-one-of-the-principal-means/)

[Alphonsus Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alphonsus-rodriguez/)

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> [The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-adams/the-date-will-be-the-most-memorable-epoch-in-the-history-of-america-i/)

[John Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-adams/)

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> [The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/the-church-and-the-whorehouse-arrived-in-the-far-west-simultaneously/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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> [We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hamza-yusuf/we-live-in-the-age-of-noah-a-s-in-the-sense-that-a-flood-of/)

[Hamza Yusuf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hamza-yusuf/)

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> [Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-gibbs/of-all-ennobling-sentiments-patriotism-may-be-the-most-easily/)

[Nancy Gibbs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-gibbs/)

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> [“For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/for-my-own-part-i-tend-to-find-the-doctrinal-books-often-more-helpful/)

[C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/)

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> [I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brother-lawrence/i-have-quitted-all-forms-of-devotion-and-set-prayers-but-those-to/)

[Brother Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brother-lawrence/)

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> [They would make the 'Church ' their great meeting-point, rather than the Atonement of Christ. As far as my experience goes, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-ridley-havergal/they-would-make-the-church-their-great-meeting-point-rather-than-the/)

[Frances Ridley Havergal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-ridley-havergal/)

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> [Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/know-that-the-eradication-of-the-identification-with-the-body-is/)

[Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/)

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> [When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/confucius/when-the-perfect-order-prevails-the-world-is-like-a-home-shared-by/)

[Confucius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/confucius/)

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> [It is most heartening to learn that young men and women, in their late teens and twenties, are increasingly attracted to meditative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-joseph-o-connor/it-is-most-heartening-to-learn-that-young-men-and-women-in-their-late/)

[John Joseph O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-joseph-o-connor/)

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> [As with every aspect of our sanctification, the renewal of the mind may be painful and difficult. It requires hard work and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-pearcey/as-with-every-aspect-of-our-sanctification-the-renewal-of-the-mind/)

[Nancy Pearcey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-pearcey/)

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> [Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/philip-wasn-t-the-sort-of-man-to-make-a-friend-of-a-woman-he-wanted/)

[Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/)

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> [Anyone attempting to live a Christian lifestyle will always be pressed towards settling for "nominal Christianity." For the believer who lives in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-west/anyone-attempting-to-live-a-christian-lifestyle-will-always-be/)

[Matthew West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-west/)

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> [It takes time and devotion to learn the language of color and lighting in the garden. Your tastes are sure to change…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-mcdowell/it-takes-time-and-devotion-to-learn-the-language-of-color-and/)

[Christopher McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-mcdowell/)

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> [If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/if-you-take-this-life-to-be-simply-what-old-religious-folks-pretend-i/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [The fruit of patience in all its aspects - long-suffering, forbearance, endurance, and perseverance - is a fruit that is most intimately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-bridges/the-fruit-of-patience-in-all-its-aspects-long-suffering-forbearance/)

[Jerry Bridges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-bridges/)

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> [To me, the Craft is what Christianity was 2,000 years ago. It was a religion that was not corrupted. I personally think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/silver-ravenwolf/to-me-the-craft-is-what-christianity-was-2-000-years-ago-it-was-a/)

[Silver RavenWolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/silver-ravenwolf/)

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> [“The one great advantage of Bhakti is that it is the easiest and most natural way to reach the great divine end…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-one-great-advantage-of-bhakti-is-that-it-is-the-easiest-and-most/)

[Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/)

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> [It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from any other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilbur-smith/it-was-this-same-jesus-the-christ-who-among-many-other-remarkable/)

[Wilbur Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilbur-smith/)

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> [My adorable darling, I may not be the first woman in your life but I want to be the last woman in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/my-adorable-darling-i-may-not-be-the-first-woman-in-your-life-but-i/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“There is a story about a great chief and his negro wife They were in a trading post, and white men took…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dahlia-dewinters/there-is-a-story-about-a-great-chief-and-his-negro-wife-they-were-in/)

[Dahlia DeWinters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dahlia-dewinters/)

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> [Build traditions in your families that will bring you together, for they can demonstrate your devotion, love, and support for one another.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-tom-perry/build-traditions-in-your-families-that-will-bring-you-together-for/)

[L. Tom Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-tom-perry/)

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                        "text": "“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 lit 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.",
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                        "text": "The word ‘holiday’ comes from ‘holy day’ and holy means ‘exalted and worthy of complete devotion.’ By that definition, all days are holy. Life is holy. Atheists have joy every day of the year, every holy day. We have the wonder and glory of life. We have joy in the world before the lord is come. We’re not going for the promise of life after death; we’re celebrating life before death…For atheists, everything in the world is enough and every day is holy. Every day is an atheist holiday. It’s a day that we’re alive.",
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                        "text": "Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy the passionate devotion to this land that possesses millions of our people, born, like myself, under other skies, for the privilege that that this county has bestowed in allowing them to partake of its fellowship.",
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                        "text": "I had just finished a run of shows in the States and went to NY to work with BenZel for a couple weeks, mainly as a different focus to touring. I didn't have any expectations or pressures with what would come out of those two weeks, and think 'Tough Love' sums this up. It was me experimenting with my voice and having fun with it. It just felt right and kind of dictated the route of the next album, much like 'Devotion' did on my first album",
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                        "text": "Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.",
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                        "text": "Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in… You can gain all the spiritual gifts in the world. You can take the most radical steps of obedience. You can share every meal with the homeless in your city. You can memorize the book of Leviticus. You can pray each morning for four hours like Martin Luther. But if what you do does not flow out of a heart of love - a heart that does those things because it genuinely desires to do them - it is ultimately worthless to God.",
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                        "text": "I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.",
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                        "text": "Devotion is the essence of the path, and if we have in mind nothing but the guru and feel nothing but fervent devotion, whatever occurs is perceived as his blessing. If we simply practice with this constantly present devotion, this is prayer itself. When all thoughts are imbued with devotion to the guru, there is a natural confidence that this will take care of whatever may happen. All forms are the guru, all sounds are prayer, and all gross and subtle thoughts arise as devotion. Everything is spontaneously liberated in the absolute nature, like knots untied in the sky.",
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                        "text": "Soul mates are those one in million who have perfect chemistry. They know what makes their partner cry and what makes them smile. They bring joy to each others life because they see best in each other. They are each others voice and strength. They have immense faith in their relationship and they stand firmly in their toughest time.",
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                        "text": "About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: \"He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter.\"",
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                        "text": "Being with someone is finding someone who brings out the very best in you, not the worst in you. Someone who isn't ashamed to be with you, not ashamed to be them self around you, someone who knows you're not perfect, but feels you're perfect for them. Someone who doesn't have time to hurt you, because they're investing in a million ways just to keep you and the relationship healthy.",
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                        "text": "So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God - forms or symbols, names, God-men. All religions have these, but you find that they want to fight with each other...These are the external forms of devotion, through which man has to pass; but if he is sincere, if he really wants to reach the truth, he goes higher than these, to a plane where forms are as nothing.",
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                        "text": "There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of radical change in the relation of the majority of our Christian people to mission work.",
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                        "text": "“Your heart of devotion and obedience is not in vain. Who knows but God how many people have come near to you and were forever changed simply by the fragrance of his love in you? Who knows but God if he will put you before kings and leaders to speak the truth, redirecting the future of nations? Who knows when that small crack in the dam of our enemy’s plans will give way and God’s glory will truly cover the earth as the sea? Do not become distracted or discouraged by the death around you. Death must always give way when the life of Christ enters the picture.”",
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                        "text": "Devotion {to the spiritual master} becomes the purest, quickest, and simplest way to realize the nature of our mind and all things. As we progress in it, the process reveals itself as wonderfully interdependent: We, from our side, try continually to generate devotion; the devotion we arouse itself generates glimpses of the nature of mind, and these glimpses only enhance and deepen our devotion to the master who is inspiring us. So in the end devotion springs out of wisdom: devotion and the living experience of the nature of mind becomes inseparable, and inspire one another.",
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                        "text": "It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals.",
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                        "text": "The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.",
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                        "text": "The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.",
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                        "text": "We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a.s.) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too.",
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                        "text": "Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is best in a nation's character: a commitment to principle, a willingness to sacrifice, a devotion to the community by the choice of the individual. But among its toxic fruits are intolerance, belligerence and blind obedience, perhaps because it blooms most luxuriantly during times of war.",
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                        "text": "“For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await others. 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.”",
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                        "text": "I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention, and a general fond regard to GOD, which I may call an actual presence of GOD, or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with GOD, which often causes me joys and raptures inwardly, and sometimes also outwardly, so great that I am forced to use means to moderate them, and prevent their appearance to others.",
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                        "text": "They would make the 'Church ' their great meeting-point, rather than the Atonement of Christ. As far as my experience goes, they have more devoutness and less devotion, more fear and less love, more feeling of duty than of desire, laying more stress on Phil. ii. 12 than ver. 13, and in practice working upon the intellect and imagination rather than aiming at the heart, skirmishing among the outworks rather than assaulting the citadel.",
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                        "text": "Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss.",
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                        "text": "When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and respects their own parents and children as well as the parents and children of others. The old are cared for, adults have jobs, children are nourished and educated. There is a means of support for all those who are disabled or find themselves alone in the world. Everyone has an appropriate role to play in the family and society. Devotion to public duty leaves no place for idleness. Scheming for ill gain is unknown. Sharing displaces selfishness and materialism.",
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                        "text": "It is most heartening to learn that young men and women, in their late teens and twenties, are increasingly attracted to meditative prayer in the Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. May all the faithful find in the Eucharist their source of strength and courage to imitate our Lady, totally open to his will in their daily lives. It is my hope that this devotion to Jesus in the Eucharist will spread to more and more parishes and dioceses across our nation.",
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                        "text": "As with every aspect of our sanctification, the renewal of the mind may be painful and difficult. It requires hard work and discipline, inspired by a sacrificial love for Christ and a burning desire to build up His body, the Church. Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.",
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                        "text": "Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I quite thought he was honest when he said he didn't believe in marriage -- and then it turned out that it was a test, to see whether my devotion was abject enough. Well, it wasn't. I didn't like having matrimony offered as a bad-conduct prize.",
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                        "text": "Anyone attempting to live a Christian lifestyle will always be pressed towards settling for \"nominal Christianity.\" For the believer who lives in the Bible Belt, it can become less about whether one is living his or her life in complete and total sold-out devotion to God, and more about where I'm going to lunch after church. If I live in an area where Christians are in the minority, there is the pressure to take a more a la carte approach to one's belief system. It's safer to take some of God's teachings and apply the parts we like but push aside that which seems too extreme or exclusive.",
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                        "text": "It takes time and devotion to learn the language of color and lighting in the garden. Your tastes are sure to change over time, reflecting your inner evolution. Seeing the garden as a canvas for your celebration of Nature's palette is a wonderful expression of the soul's love of beauty and artistry. Your own inner intuition, however, is often your best teacher, but don't forget that Mother Nature will always have a few surprises up Her sleeve as well.",
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                        "text": "If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a drought, mere human galls stung by the devil once), then all your joy and serenity is reduced to grinning and bearing it. The fact is, you have got to take the world on your shoulders like Atlas, and \"put along\" with it. You will do this for an idea's sake, and your success will be in proportion to your devotion to ideas. It may make your back ache occasionally, but you will have the satisfaction of hanging it or twirling it to suit yourself.",
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                        "text": "The fruit of patience in all its aspects - long-suffering, forbearance, endurance, and perseverance - is a fruit that is most intimately associated with our devotion to God. All character traits of godliness grow out of and have their foundation in our devotion to God, but the fruit of patience must grow out of that relationship in a particular way.",
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                        "text": "To me, the Craft is what Christianity was 2,000 years ago. It was a religion that was not corrupted. I personally think Jesus was a Crafter. We believe in all the things that he spoke of. The early Christians believed in reincarnation, and that was later removed from the belief system. Early Christians had a female Divinity, and that was taken out of their belief system, or as with Catholicism, replaced with Mary. Look at how incredible the growth in devotion of Mary is. It's amazing. The desire for a female Divinity is not just Wiccan. It speaks of a global need.",
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                        "text": "“The one great advantage of Bhakti is that it is the easiest and most natural way to reach the great divine end in view; it's great disadvantage is that in its lower forms it oftentimes degenerates into hideous fanaticism. The fanatical crew in Hinduism, Mohammedanism, or Christianity, have always been almost exclusively recruited from these worshippers [ sic ] on the lower planes of Bhakti. That singleness of attachment (Nishthâ) to a loved object, without which no genuine love can grow, is very often also the cause of the denunciation of everything else. All the weak and undeveloped minds in every religion or country have only one way of loving their own ideal, i.e., by hating every other ideal. Herein is the explanation of why the same man who is so lovingly attached to his own ideal of God, so devoted to his own ideal of religion, becomes a howling fanatic as soon as he sees or hears anything of any other ideal.”",
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                        "text": "It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from any other being would have condemned him at once as either a bloated egotist or a dangerously unbalanced person...when He said He himself would rise again from the dead, the third day after He was crucified, He said something that only a fool would dare say, if he expected longer the devotion of any disciples-unless He was sure He was going to rise. No founder of any world religion known to men ever dared say a thing like that!",
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                        "text": "My adorable darling, I may not be the first woman in your life but I want to be the last woman in your life. I know I am not the one who first made you feel loved but I want to be the only one to make you feel loved soulfully to the core. I promise to treat you the way you want to be treated, and give you the respect you deserve. I promise to always be your lover and friend. I will pay attention and give you time.. I promise to always share whats in my heart...I just want to say that I love you, will always love you, and that you are the only person Ill ever love this much. I want to pledge my undying love and dedication to you and let you know that I have found in you the man I wish to spend the rest of my life with",
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                        "text": "Build traditions in your families that will bring you together, for they can demonstrate your devotion, love, and support for one another. These events would include blessings of children, baptisms, other priesthood ordinances, graduations, missionary farewells, homecomings, and, of course, marriages. Sharing these occasions as a family will help us build a foundation established upon a rock.",
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