Devotional Quotes

• Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Hands, Gracious

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• If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

  Ramakrishna

  Practice, Brain, Desire

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Jobs, Stories, Juniors

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• The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

  John Ortberg

  Devotion To God, Devotion

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it with devotional zeal. Feel yourself inside it: That is where God dwells.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Eye, Light, Shining

  Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

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• Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is the Self. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely his real Self.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Real, Men, Self

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• The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Commitment, Connections

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.34, Random House

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• Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.1303, Discovery House

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• Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer, Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.

  Kripalvananda

  Depression, Spiritual, Song

  "The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom" edited by Kelsie Besaw, (p. 23), January 2, 2014.

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• Our devotional life with God is more like the planting of a garden. When we arise from sowing into the secret place, we will not usually be able to point to immediate results or benefits. What we sow today will require an entire season of growth before the results are manifest.

  Bob Sorge

  Garden, Secret Places, Growth

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• Pure devotional service fries the seeds of material inclinations in our heart.

  Radhanath Swami

  Heart, Fries, Materials

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• It's entirely different waking up in the morning and praying. I read aloud six or seven different devotional books, one of which is the Bible and ask the Lord to be with me that day.

  Pat Summerall

  Morning, Book, Waking

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It's the law of the universe.

  Bear Grylls

  Heart, Law, Giving

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2015

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• Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Civilization, Solitude, Going Out

  "Of God and Men". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1960.

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• Renovating temples does not mean building great gate towers or receptacles for offerings. What we should focus on is the regular conduct of worship according to tradition, regular satsang, devotional singing, and so forth. Our devotion and faith give life to temples, not rituals and ceremonies. Children, we should remember this when we are involved in temple matters.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Mean

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• Without fail, the days that I start off the right way with a little devotional time and putting God first. Those days are really good days.

  Larry Gatlin

  Good Day, Littles, Way

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• My advice for people is to love the world they are in, in whatever way makes sense to them. It may be a devotional practice, it may be song or poetry, it may be by gardening, it may be as an activist, scientist, or community leader. The path to restoration extends from our heart to the heart of sentient beings, and that path will be different for every person.

  Paul Hawken

  Song, Heart, Practice

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• Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed.

  Radhanath Swami

  Consciousness, Devotion, Should

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• If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Doe, Rules And Regulations

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• In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Mothers Day, Angel, Heaven

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• There are four great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in Brindaban and the colloquy on the field of Kurukshetra. The siege of Troy created Hellas, the exile in Brindaban created devotional religion, (for before there was only meditation and worship), Christ from his cross humanized Europe, the colloquy at Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Europe, Crucifixion Of Christ, Meditation

  "Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita" by Paul Molinari, 1993.

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• Rediscover the real meaning of the Great Commission. Beginning in our own prayer and devotional lives, we must begin to feel the compassion of the Lord for a lost and dying world. As we have already seen, the Great Commission is not something that was given to a tiny group of specially trained and educated envoys. It was given to all Christians—to the whole Church. It is something that we are all to be engaged in naturally every day.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Christian, Prayer, Real

  K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Come, Let's Reach the World: Partnership in Church Planting Among the Most Unreached”, Gfa Books

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• Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

  Benjamin Haydon

  True Religion, Persons, Bits

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.251

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• The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Men, Heroic, He Man

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• All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.

  Bradford Cox

  Devotion, Music Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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