Devotee Quotes - Page 5

Willing is superfluous for Me. For grace is ever available to devotees who have steady love and faith. Since I move freely with them, talking and singing, even intellectuals are unable to grasp My Truth, My power, My glory or My real task as Avatar.

Sathya Sai Baba

Real, Moving, Talking

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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

Amos Bronson Alcott

Expression, Study, Grammar

Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.122

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In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.

Karl Marx

Honesty, Past, Men

Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.594, Oxford University Press, USA

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I believe that the Hindu faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material, and I think that in the Western world the contrary is true. By uniting the materialism of the West with the spiritualism of the East I believe much can be accomplished. It may be that in the attempt the Hindu faith will lose much of its individuality.

Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual, Believe, Thinking

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3224, Manonmani Publishers

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One must execute devotional service under the guidance of a devotee or directly under the guidance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is not possible, however, to train oneself without guidance from the spiritual master.

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Spiritual, Personality, Guidance

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Since one cannot visually experience the presence of the Supersoul, He appears before us as a liberated devotee. Such a spiritual master is none other than Krishna himself.

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Spiritual, Krishna, Masters

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In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Spiritual, Hands, Way

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Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the military-industrial-complex, but not that type of socialism which maintains public projects for the disemployed and the unemployed alike.

William O. Douglas

Military, Subsidies, Degrees

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I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.

Mary Garden

Groups, Done, Wells

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He must be the most singlehanded devotee cricket has ever seen. Cricket has taken up so much of his life that at times you would wonder what is he going to do once he gives up the game.

Greg Chappell

Giving Up, Taken, Games

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A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Spiritual, Men, Criticism

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A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy as a whole fall into ill-repute because of those among its devotees who have stumbled into wells, or who aimlessly pass their lives in whetting their faculties and then neglecting to use them.

John Grier Hibben

Philosophy, Fall, Use

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Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity. Devotees like yourself who have found the way to God never dream of exchanging Him for any other happiness; He is seductive beyond thought of competition.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Dream, Others Happiness, Years

Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi: (Complete Edition)”, p.151, Yogoda Satsanga Society of India

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Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing.

Lahiri Mahasaya

Spiritual, Blessing, Names

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Even one moment in the company of a divine person, Krishna's pure devotee, can help a tremendous amount.

George Harrison

Helping, Moments, Krishna

Interview with Mukunda Goswami, September 4, 1982.

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The Kassideans or Assideans...arose either during the Captivity or soon after the restoration...The Essenians were, however, undoubtedly connected with the Temple (of Solomon), as their origin is derived by the learned Scalier, with every appearance of truth, from the Kassideans, a fraternity of Jewish devotees, who, in the language of Laurie, had associated together as 'Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem.'...From the Essenians Pythagoras derived much, if not all, of the knowledge and the ceremonies with which he clothed the esoteric school of his philosophy.

Albert Mackey

Philosophy, School, Knights

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The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.

Robert Morrison MacIver

Men, Ethical Principles, Self

Robert Morrison MacIver (2005). “Politics and Society”, p.174, Transaction Publishers

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An uninhibited, Chuck Berry devotee but experimented with and broke a lot of ground on feedback techniques and solid variations in tonal and dissonant utilizations. I'm one of the best guitarists in the world, and I play with great emotion.

Ted Nugent

Play, Technique, Berries

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I'm a fan of the fan. I'm a fan of the active devotee who lives his life believing in something, who represents to me the character of a person that is very confident and sure of himself. Those are people I admire.

Zoe Saldana

Believe, Character, People

"'Star Trek Beyond' stars on 'uncomfortable conversations,' Sulu's sexual orientation and the future". Interview with Marc Bernardin, www.latimes.com. July 21, 2016.

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