Top 100 Quotes About Devotion
#1. What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.
Ezra Taft Benson
#2. 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.
Rajneesh
#3. Focus isn't just working with single-minded devotion to a purpose. It's also working ONLY on things that take you towards your goals.
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
#4. I take a backseat to no one in my affection, respect and devotion to veterans. And I will not accept from Senator Obama, who did not feel it was his responsibility to serve our country in uniform, any lectures on my regard for those who did.
John McCain
#5. If you devote yourself to God, then He in turn will continually stay with you, as an eternal candle flame stays with a wick, feeding off the overflow of wax; yet reshaping into something better.
Anthony Liccione
#6. The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will draw out of them the last full measure of devotion. It is a doctrine for the deep believer but it will bring only scorn from the skeptic.
Neal A. Maxwell
#7. I want to be with you, Demetria. Go on dates, have sex and pointless arguments, figure out why you like to eat rabbit food, be the person you call first when you've had a bad day, come over and hold your hair when you're sick. How much clearer can I make this?
Genevieve Dewey
#8. The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious , and we must never trumpet it as such.
Barack Obama
#9. No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.
Charles Babbage
#10. All my devotion is an insult to God unless every bit of my practical life squares with Jesus Christ's demands.
Eric Ludy
#11. Much has been written about the loyalty of dogs, but what I love about them isn't their devotion to me so much as their devotion to being alive.
Steven Bauer
#12. The papers say we're married, but it's the heart that writes the love story.
Anthony Liccione
#13. 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 up my mind to raise my hand against my relative, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the Army ...
Robert E.Lee
#14. Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.
John Stott
#15. You called me poet-priest - I am ... devoted to my art, faithful to you ... or, is the other way around? ...
John Geddes
#16. In this part of the story I am the one who
dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.
Pablo Neruda
#17. Plainly put, a relationship with jesus requires total, superior, and exclusive devotion.
David Platt
#18. From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.
Theodore Roosevelt
#19. You will not achieve true devotion in one go. The gihad of the soul, Taha, is the Greater Gihad, as the Messenger of God - God bless him and give him peace - called it." "What should I do, Master?
Alaa Al Aswany
#20. You tend to become that, what you want most. Look to the light of God, expect the best and give it your best. Make success happen with devotion and dedication. You can do it.
Mark LaMoure
#21. I am painting you
Because painting you
Nurtures my devotion and eternal passion.
Vishwas Chavan
#22. The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.
Oswald Chambers
#23. A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#24. You too can be carved anew by the details of your devotion.
Mary Oliver
#25. If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.
Francis De Sales
#26. 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.
Anandamayi Ma
#27. If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.
Evelyn Underhill
#28. Until Self-realization is attained; it is not worth having a fixed-view at any place, it is not worth having habitual-devotion at any place and it is not worth stopping anywhere.
Dada Bhagwan
#29. Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence.
Gian Kumar
#30. Being an artist and a musician, I have witnessed the previous generation taking the art form, not as a way of making a living, but as a belief, an almost maniacal, sometimes insane devotion and commitment to communication.
David Finckel
#31. It is easy to infuse a most fervent devotion into others, even in a short time; but the great matter is - to persevere.
Philip Neri
#32. Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
Calvin Coolidge
#33. To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.
Honore De Balzac
#34. In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.
Mahatma Gandhi
#35. Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.
Alice Walker
#36. However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.
Vera Brittain
#37. Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.
Theodore Roosevelt
#38. For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#39. God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him." "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.
Rumi
#40. She'd declined to attend parties and balls, citing her devotion to the Highland hero of her dreams - but really because she'd preferred to stay home with a book.
Tessa Dare
#41. If I am secure in God's devotion, then I am free to love others without depending on them to meet my need for love.
Cynthia Heald
#42. These ceremonies which are used in the administration of the Sacraments, each of which we receive as delivered and entrusted to us through the hands of the fathers, must especially be retained and observed with great devotion.
Peter Canisius
#43. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
Woodrow Wilson
#44. Single-minded and joyous devotion to God and his will, to what God wants for us-and to service to him and to others because of him-is what the will transformed into Christliheness looks like.
Dallas Willard
#45. All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?
Bertrand Russell
#46. Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.
Hosea Ballou
#47. All the labours of ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinciton in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.
Bertrand Russell
#48. But I could I tell her so in a way that would suggest the distinctive nature of my attraction? Words like "love" or "devotion" or "infatuation" we're exhausted by the weight of successive love stories, but the layers imposed on them through the uses of others.
Alain De Botton
#49. My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.
Galen Rowell
#50. What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of neighbourhood, the bonds of country, to range plains, valleys, hills, mountains, for a new flower.
Dorothea Dix
#51. Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion
Thomas Hobbes
#53. Once we were on the high Plynlimon pass, we stopped to stretch our legs, change drivers, and make a short devotion to the shrine dedicated to the once-popular but now little-known Saint Aosbczkcs, the Patron Saint of Fading Relevance.
Jasper Fforde
#54. In our hearts do we feel a sense of gratitude and devotion to the Father? Are we of one heart with Him to whom we owe everything? The test of our devotion to the Lord seems to be the way we serve Him.
L. Tom Perry
#55. According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually
Bill McKibben
#56. You have to plan it [your devotion to God] every day. And, the best time to plan it is before your day begins. If you don't plan it, your day will plan you. And so, I make a disciplined life of the study of the scriptures, reading the word every day.
Ravi Zacharias
#57. The body doesn't always crave what's good for it. That's why attraction will never be enough for me. That's why there has to be more. Love. Devotion. Determination.
Gena Showalter
#58. Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and harmony are made, so that God is honored and praised but mankind is moved to devotion, virtue, joy, and sorrow.
Christoph Wolff
#61. My husband would do anything for me ... ' It's degrading. No human being ought to have such power over another."
"It's a very real power, Harriet."
"Then ... we won't use it. If we disagree, we'll fight it out like gentlemen. We won't stand for matrimonial blackmail.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#62. Outcome is not vital! All what matters is your effort and devotion towards it ... !!
Nehali Lalwani
#63. Devote yourself to getting to know Him better, then you will grow in that righteousness which is in you, in peace, in joy and God will look after other people and solve their problems for them.
Sunday Adelaja
#64. See the Divine in everyone. Eschew hatred and ill will. After years of devotion, many still lack a broad outlook and an all-encompassing love.
Sathya Sai Baba
#65. The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.
Mary Baker Eddy
#66. 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.
William Carey
#67. She bit her lower lip hard and blinked her eyes. There was such wistfulness and longing in his voice. Oh, she was going to give him back his eyes, or the next best thing, if it took her the rest of her life to do it.
Mary Balogh
#68. The only thing I want more than you, is to do right by you.
Angela N. Blount
#69. If it takes lots of patience,sacrifice and devotion to achieve the thing you've desired, for sure you have set your targets high and you're going through immense pain to reach there.
Just don't quit.
Himmilicious
#70. Fill your heart with truth so that the wisdom of Christ will flow fluently from you like a living river moving into the seeking hearts of the thirsty.
Calvin W. Allison
#71. True devotion is motivated by love alone and devoid of selfish entanglements.
Rick Hocker
#72. Religious devotion is for the individual. Character is for all. There is no loss if there is no devotion. Everything is lost if there is no character.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
#73. I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.
Lester B. Pearson
#74. The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.
R. Kent Hughes
#75. Discipleship is based not on devotion to abstract ideals, but on devotion to a person, the Lord Jesus Christ;
Oswald Chambers
#76. Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#77. The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,
a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion.
Edgar Allan Poe
#78. Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.
Guru Nanak
#79. there is no doubt that the end of the paths of devotion and knowledge is one and the same.
Ramana Maharshi
#80. Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.
Mahatma Gandhi
#81. The animating fire of life is merely a total devotion to living.
Bryant McGill
#82. Don't regard yourselves as the final recipients of [...] music [...]. Instead, offer your ears and heart to heaven. Let your experience of [...] music go up to God.
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
#83. 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.
Rob Brezsny
#84. Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.
Grover Cleveland
#85. But why will God not speak to me? ... I think when God is silent, He wants us to prove in our hearts that we are willing to follow Him no matter the cost. If all answers were crystal-clear, how could we show our devotion to Him?
Jennifer Beckstrand
#86. We have to surrender ourselves completely to the Lord with faith and devotion in Him, serve others to the best of our capacity, and never be a source of sorrow to anybody.
Sarada Devi
#87. A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.
C.S. Lewis
#88. The elements of love, devotion, loyalty I have found in the words, never found in humans. That is why I never truly loved.
M.F. Moonzajer
#89. Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.
Radhanath Swami
#90. Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.
Robert A. Heinlein
#92. The worship practices of the people of God are to be marked by devotion to Him and compassion to the needy.
Max Anders
#93. What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
Moliere
#94. I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.
Susan Sontag
#95. Devotion to God is studying him in every aspect; serving God is teaching what you know of Him to others.
Reshad Feild
#96. Death doesn't end our devotion. It only makes it stronger.
James W. Bodden
#97. Devotion does not mean only Chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
Pandurang Shastri Athavale
#98. I don't attend church because I am a Meryl Streepist and we, her disciples, have not organized a place of worship yet. We just watch 'Sophie's Choice' in our homes once a month and sing praise together in a collective cry of shock and awe and devotion.
Jasika Nicole
#99. Don't do this for me - do this with me. A leader earns devotion by showing devotion.
Eric Greitens
#100. Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
Zhuangzi
