Devotion Quotes - Page 17

• I use the Scriptures, not as an arsenal to be resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as a matchless temple, where I delight to be, to contemplate the beauty, the symmetry, and the magnificence of the structure, and to increase my awe, and excite my devotion to the Deity there preached and adored.

  Robert Boyle

  Bible, Use, Delight

  Robert Boyle (1835). “Treatises on the High Veneration Man's Intellect Owes to God...”, p.158

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

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Religious, Soul, Impossible

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• During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and [André ] Gluxman, pointed out that Camus had said things no one wanted to hear in the political arena. They said it was [Albert] Camus who was right, not those who had slid under the influence of Sartre, that is to say an unconditional devotion to Communism as seen in the Soviet Union. And ever since then the evaluation of Camus has continued to modify up until today

  Catherine Camus

  Political, Unions, Today

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day - sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

  Bruce Lee

  Light, Darkness, Matter

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.233, Tuttle Publishing

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• Fifty-four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could have achieved a quarter of what I have achieved, not only in terms of success and career, but in terms of personal happiness.

  Noel Coward

  Loyalty, Years, Careers

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• American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Women, Self, Two

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• I make intelligence cool. I make spirituality cool. If we can make one's devotion to God cool, then I think I did a great thing. I can rest in peace.

  KRS-One

  Rest In Peace, Thinking, Devotion To God

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• Woe to those who despise devotion to Mary! ... The soul cannot live without having recourse to Mary and recommending itself to her. He falls and is lost who does not have recourse to Mary.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Christian, Fall, Soul

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• [Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed, not simply to the aspirations of a transcendent sanctity, but to the dictates of the most common honesty. He showed that they had applauded falsehood, that they had practised the most wholesale forgery, that they had habitually and grossly falsified history, that they had adopted to the fullest extent the system of pious frauds, and that they continually employed them to stimulate the devotion of the people.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Religious, Honesty, People

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.154

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• And may I not be allowed to ... read in the character of the American people, in their devotion to true liberty and to the Constitution which is its palladium [protection], ... a Government which watches over ... the equal interdict [prohibition] against encroachments and compacts between religion and the state.

  James Madison

  Character, Government, People

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• Other people's devotions embarrassed me, perhaps because, like other people's kisses, they rarely looked genuine when viewed too closely.

  Walter Kirn

  Kissing, People, Genuine

  Walter Kirn (2006). “Mission to America”, p.170, Anchor

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• Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Prayer, Kindness, Doe

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• 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

  Art, Poetry, Literature

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• What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more towards all that was good in him, I did more justice to the qualities that might have made him a man of a noble nature and a great name, than ever I had done in the height of my devotion to him.

  Charles Dickens

  Writing, Character, Men

  Charles Dickens (2012). “Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times”, p.997, Graphic Arts Books

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• Indian standards of artistry, and Indian standards of humanity, and Indian standards of love, and of family, devotion, commitment, stand for me as the standard for how one should behave.

  Clark Blaise

  Commitment, Humanity, Should

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• Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove.

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  Said, Free Market, Rail

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• Yes, I pray that my pain might be removed, that it might cease; but more so, I pray for the strength to bear it, the grace to benefit from it, and the devotion to offer it up to God as a sacrifice of praise.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Pain, Sacrifice, Grace

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty”, p.35, David C Cook

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• The abortion industry can try to improve its messaging all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.

  Gary Bauer

  Abortion, Trying, Demand

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• Creating music is a wonderful way to celebrate our devotion for Lord Shiva.

  Amish Tripathi

  Creating, Shiva, Way

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

  Sebastian Faulks

  Religious, Character, Facts

  "Sebastian Faulks moves to head off Islam row" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2009.

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• The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Men, Soul, Proud

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.47, Sahitya Akademi

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

  John of Damascus

  Religious, Blessed, Mean

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• [Silvio] Gesell's chiefwork is written in cool and scientific terms, although it is run through by a more passionate and charged devotion to social justice than many think fit for a scholar. I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell then from that of Marx.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality?

  James Madison

  Atheism, Attendance, Tiresome

  James Madison (1999). “Writings”

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• Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.

  John R. Erickson

  Cat, Bravery, Rewards

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