Devotion Quotes - Page 12

• Be a woman of Christ. Cherish your esteemed place in the sight of God. He needs you. This church needs you. The world needs you. A woman's abiding trust in God and unfailing devotion to things of the Spirit have always been an anchor when the wind and the waves of life were fiercest.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Wave Of Life, Sight, Anchors

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• I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Book, Heart

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.223, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Pray earnestly and fast with purpose and devotion. Some difficulties, like devils, do not come out save by fasting and by prayer. Ask in righteousness and you shall receive. Knock with conviction and it shall be opened unto you.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Prayer, Devil, Fasting

  Jeffrey R. Holland (1985). “However Long and Hard the Road”, Deseret Book Co

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

  Maureen Johnson

  Mother, Gratitude, Sisterly

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.50, Penguin

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• But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I had adopted the prevaricator's credo that one doesn't so much fabricate a lie as marry it. A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help. By contrast, my lie needed me as much as I needed it, and so demanded the constancy of wedlock: Till death do us part.

  Lionel Shriver

  Lying, Liars, Successful

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.175, Counterpoint Press

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• She gestured toward his very fine chest with her pencil. “On the off chance I find out after we’re married that your declaration of abiding love and devotion has been an elaborate con job perpetrated by you, Bodie, and Scary Spice…” He massaged her arch. “I definitely wouldn’t lose too much sleep over that.” “Just in case. You will give me all you worldly goods, shave your head, and leave the country.” “Deal.” “Plus, you have to hand out your Sox tickets so I can burn them in front of your eyes.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Country, Jobs, Eye

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• The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was to those whom society considered real sinners. They had done nothing to merit salvation. Yet they opened themselves to the gift that was offered them. On the other hand, the self-righteous placed their trust in the works of the Law and closed their hearts to the message of grace.

  Brennan Manning

  Morning, Jesus, Real

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.38, Multnomah

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• I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I want you to look at me the way you look at him, knowing the worst. I want you to trust me, even when your brain tells you you shouldn't, I want you to ignore common sense and your lifelong need to protect yourself. I want you to give yourself to me, body and soul.

  Anne Stuart

  Father, Acceptance, Knowing

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• I’d never known it was possible to love as he did— with complete devotion yet devoid of promises.

  Ann Aguirre

  Promise, Known

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Wanderlust”, p.10, Penguin

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• Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Understanding, Saying Yes, Way

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.167, A&C Black

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• When the Dark Lord takes over, is he going to care how many O.W.L.s or N.E.W.T.s anyone’s got? Of course he isn’t. . . . It’ll be all about the kind of service he received, the level of devotion he was shown.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dark, Levels, Care

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• Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among those inclined by temperament or upbringing toward religious pursuits. Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a crucial component of spiritual devotion. And when religious fanaticism supplants ratiocination, all bets are suddenly off.

  Jon Krakauer

  Spiritual, Religious, Atheist

  Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Intersections

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Mothers have a sacred role. They are partners with God, as well as with their own husbands, first in giving birth to the Lord's spirit children and then rearing those children so they will serve the Lord and keep his commandments. ...Motherhood is a holy calling, a sacred dedication for carrying out the Lord's work, a consecration and devotion to the rearing and fostering, the nurturing of body, mind, and spirit of those who kept their first estate and who came to this earth for their second estate to learn and be tested.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Mother, Husband, Children

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• I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Hate, Giving

  BookCaps, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.18, BookCaps Study Guides

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• 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

  Inspiration, Age, Genius

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• The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage--who can tell?--but truth--truth stripped of its cloak of time.

  Joseph Conrad

  Past, Men, Joy

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.43, Xist Publishing

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• Not all people who inspire devotion are monsters.

  Kristin Cashore

  People, Inspire, Monsters

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• Their devotion showed me there were no versions of love there was only... Love. That it had no equal and that it was worth searching for, even if that search took a lifetime.

  Jennifer Worth

  Lifetime, Equal, Only Love

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• My old mind hadn’t been capable of holding this much love. My old heart had not been strong enough to bear it. Maybe this was the part of me that I’d brought forward to be intensified in my new life. Like Carlisle’s compassion and Esme’s devotion. I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice, and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever loved anyone else. I could live with that.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Strong, Heart, Compassion

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• I shouldn’t ask you to,” he said, devotion in every word, “but I’m going to. Wait for me, Jess. I’ll come back to you.” Naked emotion turned the sea green into hidden emeralds. Pressing her fingers to his lips, she shook her head. “You never have to ask, Galen. Forever, that’s how long I’d wait for you.

  Nalini Singh

  Sea, Long, Waiting

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Angels' Dance”, p.73, Penguin

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• An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

  Charles Williams

  Two, Mind, Literature

  Charles Williams (2016). “War in Heaven”, p.121, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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

  Alain de Botton

  Art, World, Reverence

  "What art museums should learn from Christianity". Article by Alain de Botton, www.abc.net.au. February 22, 2012.

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• It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn’t always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.

  Miranda July

  Giving Up, Writing, Loving Someone

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.6, McSweeney's

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• Time exists so that you can experience these flavors as deeply as possible. On the path of devotion, if you can experience even a glimmer of love, its possible to experience a little more love. When you experience that a little more, then the next degree of intensity is possible. Thus, love engenders love until you reach the point of saturation, when you totally merge with the divine love. this is what the mystics mean when they say that they plunge into the ocean of love to drown themselves.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Ocean, Mean

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