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Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

Knowledge, Action and Devotion are complementary to each other.

Devotion does not mean only Chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.

Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.

Part of the power of song is that it is a beautiful expression of devotion…singing releases the pent-up joy and thanksgiving we feel because of God’s grace and goodness.

Devotion is the realization that wealth, education and power are God given gifts and not the endowments of fate.

To achieve progress and development it is necessary to bring about co-ordination between liberty and security through Devotion.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God’s spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

To have a good friend is the purest of all God’s gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. It is not inherited, as with a family. It is not compelling, as with a child. And it has no means of physical pleasure, as with a mate. It is, therefore, an indescribable bond that brings with it a far deeper devotion than all the others.

Devotion is a tool to dissolve yourself into nothingness and become the very hand of the Divine.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe.

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

Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?

The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.

The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room – in moments of devotion, a temple – and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated – darkness still.

What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young.

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one’s one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas – a place where history comes to life.

Knowledge without devotion to God produces hatred.

America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.

Devotion (Bhakti) includes Sentimental Devotion (Bhav Bhakti) and Devotion through action (Kruti Bhakti).

The most Superior amongst the colors in the universe is the color of Devotion.

If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase.

So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say that he is quickening a false devotion almost all over the world, increasing the number of pilgrims to Mecca, multiplying the offerings to the most famous impostors, inducing men to build mosques for Mohammedan worship, causing the invention of new superstitions among the dervishes – in a word, stimulating many abominable things which otherwise might not have been.

My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.

a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you’ve conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.

People think I’m disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.