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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.

[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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Despair the twin-born of devotion.

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 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.

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.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.

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.

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.

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

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

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

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

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

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

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

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