Best 445 quotes in «devotion quotes» category

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.

Despair the twin-born of devotion.

Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.

Devotion (Bhakti) includes Sentimental Devotion (Bhav Bhakti) and Devotion through action (Kruti Bhakti).

Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty.

Devotion is love overflowing. Even when there is nobody, it is overflowing - to things, to tables, to chairs, to walls. It is just overflowing, it is not a question of to whom.

Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

Devotion means a profusion of life.

Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

Devotion differs. Devotion exists for the total existence, without the counterpart, mm? There is nothing against devotion. There is hate against love; there is nothing against devotion. No-devotion is not against devotion, it is just absence. So when someone says, "I am devoted to Rama," really he is using a wrong word. If he loves Rama, then he cannot love Krishna. If someone says, "I am devoted to Krishna," then he cannot love Christ. He is using a wrong word. He is continuing the love phenomenon; it is not devotion.

Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.

[Do not] overburden yourself with rules of devotion, but persist in doing well those you have, your daily actions, your work; in a word, let everything revolve around doing well what you are doing.

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

Either melt by devotion the sense of separateness, or burn it by knowledge-for what is it that melts or burns? Only that which by its nature can be melted or burnt; namely the idea that something other than your Self exists. What will happen then? You come to know your Self.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.

Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary

God first seeks devotion to Him in the hidden place–worship when no one else is watching.

For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).

For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.

For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

God offers authentic LOVE. His devotion is the real deal. But He won't give you the genuine until you surrender the imitations.

He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.

Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.

If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are.

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

I knew nothing but love and devotion when I was growing up. Trust me, it makes everything easier.

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

I like it when science and devotion find places of intersection.

In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.

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

I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them. I think if journalists start doing that then they won't be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won't be practicing satire.

It has happened, women have helped their husbands, sacrificed their whole lives, never thought about themselves. Their surrender, their devotion to their lovers has been total. In this totality, they have achieved before their lover has.

It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life , and that unless contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs.

It is easy to infuse a most fervent devotion into others, even in a short time; but the great matter is - to persevere.

Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.

It is not because there is God that devotion has come; because there is devotion, there is God.

Its from the deep waters that we come. And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters. We come with an unflinching devotion to the mystical and to God - representing life and embracing death.

It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that we'll never see again. Unit histories just do not get any better.

Knowledge without devotion to God produces hatred.

Knowledge often spoils devotion.