Religious Devotion Quotes

#1. Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.

Ramakrishna

#2. It strikes me, my dear, that religious devotion would be somewhat out of place tonight

James Hogg

#3. Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. The nicest characters in 'A Week in December' are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.

Sebastian Faulks

#5. One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion.

Stephen L. Carter

#6. Presently the newly awakened psychology will gradually accomplish what pure religious devotion might have done: throw out Paul, and let Jesus in!

Jan Willem Kaiser

#7. 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

#8. If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey,' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'

Janet Montgomery

#9. Now. If any habits ever had time to fix upon her, they would have operated here. Habits are peculiar things. They will drive the really non-religious mind out of bed to say prayers that are only a custom and not a devotion. The victim of habit, when he has

Theodore Dreiser

#10. The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.

Bruno Bauer

#11. The way people want to get respect for their culture and language, it is critical to reciprocate the same to other else you don't have any right to condemn others.

Pankaj Gupta

#12. I make positive choices so I can be happy.

Hayley Williams

#13. Practice and playing music has to be like a religious experience. It has to be your religion, you know; it has to be your trance. You get something from a devotion to it and digging deeper into yourself and the nature of reality.

Jonathan Harnum

#14. The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.

Christian Lous Lange

#15. Grind the faces of the poor.

Isaiah

#16. The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.

Arthur Goldberg

#17. Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.

Dani Shapiro

#18. Religion to me is devotion to work and devotedly working is being religious.

Narendra Modi

#19. The best form of devotion to the service of Allah is not to make a show of it.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

#20. Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse people less intelligent than you. In any case, it means: Life is tough, so you'd better fight hard-or something like that.

Obert Skye

#21. We were perfectly willing to go in there and rest, but it could not be done. It was only another delusion - a painting by some ingenious artist with little charity in his heart for tired folk.

Mark Twain

#22. The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals.

William James

#23. Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.

Swami Vivekananda

#24. We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god. Indeed, those who discriminate against nonbelievers flout the principle of religious tolerance that they often profess.

Norman Dorsen

#25. We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to offer. The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, and bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have all been flown for religious ideals.

William James

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. You find your soul mate only once, and if you let her go, you'll never be happy.

Lacey Silks

#29. He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.

Quintus Ennius

#30. Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#31. It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#32. Their devotion had never been put to any serious test, and might not have withstood one; their love for God was based in their satisfaction with the status quo.

Ted Chiang

#33. This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982 recession, the 1991 recession, the 2001 recession, not only is this bigger, this is bigger than all of those combined.

Austan Goolsbee

#34. From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.

Seth Low

#35. You know, you handled yourself last night. Don't know many humans who would have taken on Rhage or me. Much less in front of all the brothers." "Ah, now, don't get all mushy on me. We ain't dating.

J.R. Ward

#36. When someone believes in you, it's miraculous how you
suddenly start to believe in yourself, how you suddenly want to become the person that hey see. (McCall)

Santino Hassell

#37. Remember yourself. Deep inside, you have an observer, a constant neutral witness to your posture, gesture, facial expression, breathing, taste, impressions of light and sound. Don't leap to interpret. Just be there and observe.

Jonathan Price

#38. No matter how sinful one may have been, if he has devotion to Mary, it is impossible that he be lost.

Hilary Of Poitiers

#39. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#40. No one is ever unhappy because of someone else.

Epictetus

#41. Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.

John Of Damascus