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• Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Giving, Soul, Affection

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “The Poetical Works of Miss Landon: Complete”, p.37

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• In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Prayer, Unseen, Recognition

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• Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord's Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him and, as a result, profound inner inquiry blossoms forth.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Light, Profound, Deep Thought

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• Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. Part of what we always did was have sex and fight about it and break each other’s hearts. I guess there’s other kinds of love too. Great friendships. Working together. But poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You’re always home.

  Eileen Myles

  Song, Sex, Fall

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• Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Worship, Refuse

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• Why shouldn't you strengthen your own vibrations through fellowship with people seeking Self-realization, and by group meditation with them? This practice will fortify your own spiritual convictions you will find that many seemingly insuperable barriers in your life will crumble and dissolve in the waters of meditation. Your devotion and love for God will commingle with the devotion and love of others. Divine bliss will radiate from you, helping all persons you meet.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Self, Practice

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• The athlete must make a devotion of his specialty.

  Paavo Nurmi

  Athlete, Specialty

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• Devotion {to the spiritual master} becomes the purest, quickest, and simplest way to realize the nature of our mind and all things. As we progress in it, the process reveals itself as wonderfully interdependent: We, from our side, try continually to generate devotion; the devotion we arouse itself generates glimpses of the nature of mind, and these glimpses only enhance and deepen our devotion to the master who is inspiring us. So in the end devotion springs out of wisdom: devotion and the living experience of the nature of mind becomes inseparable, and inspire one another.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Life, Spiritual, Nature

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• For years, liberals have demonstrated a near religious devotion to the cause of 'cleaning up elections' with campaign finance reform, the wondrous panacea that would finally rescue our great country from corruption in politics. ... How anyone could believe that corrupt politicians could or would legislate away their own corruption is completely beyond me.

  Anthony Gregory

  Country, Religious, Believe

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• May Thy Love shine forever on the sanctuary of my devotion. And may I be able to awaken Thy love in all hearts.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Heart, Shining, Forever

  Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.245, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• Build traditions in your families that will bring you together, for they can demonstrate your devotion, love, and support for one another. These events would include blessings of children, baptisms, other priesthood ordinances, graduations, missionary farewells, homecomings, and, of course, marriages. Sharing these occasions as a family will help us build a foundation established upon a rock.

  L. Tom Perry

  Love, Children, Farewell

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• The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Heart, Eye, God Love

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2015). “Heirs of the King: Living the Beatitudes”, p.136, Discovery House

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• The devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Holy Eucharist, Church, Present Time

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• Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary

  Pope Pius X

  Miracle, Church, Rosary

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• Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.

  Marie Howe

  Stories, Body, Forget

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• For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nurse, Useless, May

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.160

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• Daily simple, sincere, and mighty prayers lift our lives to a higher spiritual altitude. In our prayers we praise God, give thanks to Him, confess weaknesses, petition needs, and express deep devotion to our Heavenly Father. As we make this spiritual effort in the name of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, we are endowed with increased inspiration, revelation, and righteousness, which bring the brightness of heaven into our lives.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Spiritual, Jesus, Prayer

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• America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

  Woodrow Wilson

  America, Elements, Scripture

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.59, NYU Press

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• Love can become devotion. Love is the first step; only then can devotion flower. But for us even love is a faraway reality, sex is the only real thing. Love has two possibilities: either it falls into sex and becomes a bodily thing, or it rises into devotion and becomes a thing of the spirit. Love is just in between. Just below it is the abyss of sex, and beyond it is the open sky - the infinite sky of devotion.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Real, Flower

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• When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and respects their own parents and children as well as the parents and children of others. The old are cared for, adults have jobs, children are nourished and educated. There is a means of support for all those who are disabled or find themselves alone in the world. Everyone has an appropriate role to play in the family and society. Devotion to public duty leaves no place for idleness. Scheming for ill gain is unknown. Sharing displaces selfishness and materialism.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Jobs

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• A Mother's love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Mother, Inspirational Love, Pain

  Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia Ruehlmann (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.37, Revell

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• The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. In all our heart; that is, in all our understanding without erring. In all our soul; that is, in all our will without gainsaying. In all our their ought; that is, that we think on Him without forgetting. In this manner is very love and true, that is work of man's will. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

  Richard Rolle

  Jesus, Heart, Love Is

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• Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, Doctrine

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.360, Discovery House

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• Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best, I put before you what I have found to be the best - one who is worthy of all our devotion - Jesus Christ. He is the Saviour for the young and the old. Lord, here I am

  Eric Liddell

  Christian, Jesus, Here I Am

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• If those friends who blame...could see what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that those redeemed by Christ should be so backward in devotion, and know so little of the spirit of self-sacrifice. They would be ashamed of the hesitations that hinder us. But we must remember that it was not by interceding for the world in glory that Jesus saved it. He gave Himself. Our prayers for the evangelization of the world are but a bitter irony as we only give of our superfluity and draw back before the sacrifice of ourselves.

  Francois Coillard

  Faith, Christian, Jesus

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