Devotion Quotes

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Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse… — Thomas a Kempis
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion. — John Henry Newman
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… — Michel de Montaigne
A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than… — Joseph Addison
One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life. — Saint Francis de Sales
When they the American soldiers came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion.... Joining hands with them, the men of America gave… — Woodrow Wilson
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious.… — Arthur Goldberg
How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts of reverence and devotion make one… — Dorothy Day
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion. — James Boswell
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child,… — Andrea Dworkin
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make. — Abraham Cowley
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it… — Wendell Berry
Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up,… — E. Stanley Jones
In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness. — Israel Shenker
The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now… — Christian Lous Lange
In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who… — Radhanath Swami
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. — Marguerite Young
I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion… — Ayelet Waldman
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier… — Abraham Kuyper

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