Best 445 quotes in «devotion quotes» category

you look at me like I'm deserving of real care & devotion, the kind i've given but never seen up close until you i didn't know how to hold a miracle i often think i need to make my needs small enough they hide under my giving

You made me feel worthwhile…. like for once it mattered if I was here or not because I actually meant something to someone…. because I meant something to you. I miss that feeling.

You must promise to give yourself entirely to someone or something because that's who you are. You are a genius at devoting yourself; it's what makes you happiest.

You’re the one thing I want the most in the world yet the one thing I cannot have. Because to have you completely would be impossible. You can’t go where I walk.

Abe glanced at Rose. "You see that?" he said. "Now that's devotion." She rolled her eyes at him.

Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.

Your words are waltzing in perfection Your thoughts are candidly subduing mine Your magic keeps me chained in an eternal devotion (Fragment from Yours, chapter Passion)

A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

According to our purpose, motivation and sincerity, which compose our devotion, Krishna reveals Himself to us.

A devotee has no agenda of his own. For him, the object of devotion is everything.

[Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.

America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.

An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary

BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that prevents the buildup of fanaticism.

Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality?

As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.

At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.

A pause while my mother made high-pitched sisterly devotions of gratitude.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire.

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our 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.

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

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.

Despair the twin-born of devotion.

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 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.

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.

[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.

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.

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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