Devotion Quotes

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider… — Aristotle
Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man… — Teresa of Avila
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore de Balzac
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion.… — Ezra Taft Benson
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself… — Mitch Albom
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready… — Adam Clarke
What is important is not victory or the position of a victor, but rather the labor of striving towards God and devotion to Him. — John of Shanghai and San Francisco
Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction, talents enough to need no… — Eric Milner-White
Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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… — Wilbur Smith
If one will fix his heart in such a way and assist the world and its people, he will have the devotion of the men… — Hojo Shigetoki
...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion… — Arthur Koestler
Prayer is the acid test of devotion. — Samuel Chadwick
Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of such unflinching determination and unswerving… — Janet Morris
You know, in the oath that brand-new citizens take, it contains six different references to 'the law.' If it's good enough for us to ask… — Trey Gowdy
To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
As far as possible, you should pray in quiet and silent devotion. Try to have a favorite topic of prayer, such as a devotion to… — Peter Julian Eymard
I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it… — William Wilberforce
A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life. — Edward McKendree Bounds

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