Devotion Quotes
824 quotes by 607 authors
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There are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on…
— Edmund Ezra Day
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The practice of Sufism is the intention to move toward truth by means of love and devotion.
— Javad Nurbakhsh
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The ability to stand by one's principles, to live with integrity and faith according to one's belief-that is what matters, that is the difference between…
— Howard W. Hunter
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Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Our moods may shift, but God's doesn't. Our minds may change, but God's doesn't. Our devotion may falter, but God's never does. Even if we…
— Max Lucado
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We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to…
— George Ripley
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I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere…
— Susanna Wesley
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I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in…
— Gertrude the Great
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To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life…
— Pope John XXIII
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Our Lord came to the aid of each great tribulation with a special devotion. The present and future tribulations of the Church and of nations…
— Pope Leo XIII
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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 prayer in the…
— John Joseph O'Connor
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Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is most pleasing to…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
— John Dryden
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I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I…
— Bob Hope
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The beloved of Allah are the perfume of Allah upon this world, but only the true, sincere believers have noses to smell them. They smell…
— Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi
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How can death become joyous? How can death become happiness? When Al-Hussein asked his nephew Al-Qassem, when he had not yet reached puberty: 'How do…
— Hassan Nasrallah
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True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.
— Rabia Basri
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With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make…
— Robert E. Lee
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When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
— Regina Brett
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Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals…
— Ordway Tead
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