Top 1200 Devotion To God Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ.

Self-confidence means thinking all the time, "God is in me... God is doing every­thing . . . without God I cannot be . . . all this is God . . . I only want to think of God."

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

In fact, what my fans shown towards me is devotion.

Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.

Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.

The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God'; the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. ... The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me.

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

You must go on to remind yourself of God - who God is, and what God is, and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do.

The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.

Intellectually I touched God many times as truth and emotionally I touched God as love. I touched God as goodness. I touched God as kindness. It came to me that God is a creative force, a motivating power, an over-all intelligence, an ever-present, all pervading spirit - which binds everything in the universe together and gives life to everything. That brought God close. I could not be where God is not. You are within God. God is within you.

After my engagement with Muslim friends, I pray more than I used to pray. My prayer life has been enriched by my encounter with some Muslims, encouraged by their devotion and also enriched by the ways in which they pray. Have I compromised in this way at all? No, to the contrary, I've gone deeper in my faith and I think my love for God has been deepened and made more intelligent in a sense, more rich by that very encounter.

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

A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.

Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.

Love is about feeling that there is something bigger than just ourselves and our own worries and existence. Whether it is love of another person, of country, of God, of an idea, love is fundamentally an intense devotion to this notion that something is bigger than us. Love is ultimately larger than friendship, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, or joy. Indeed, as the Four Wise Ones once said, it may be all you need.

I traveled around America and then at nineteen, went to Europe and hitchhiked from London to the Himalayas in India. I studied various forms of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and in India, various forms of Buddhism and Hinduism. Eventually, I came to the path of unconditional love and devotion to the one God, who in our tradition we call Krishna. I met my guru and became a swami. This allowed me to share that gift, which I consider to be a very deep universal expression of compassion.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort.

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.

You, too, can be carved anew by the details of your devotion.

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.

Devotion means your involvement with life is no more conditional.

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

Knowledge, Action and Devotion are complementary to each other.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

Even the impossible becomes possible through devotion.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion.

I don't know if you realize it or not, but your sudden devotion to her is creepy.

Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.

Well, what is God, then? God is that which watches. God is neither masculine nor feminine, although God can assume any form. God is that eternal reality that is in everything.

"The best form of devotion to the service of Allah is not to make a show of it."

I'll pit my God against your god any day, I say to the Calvinists. It's not their god I'm praying to.... The God I'm praying to is neither male nor female. My God is the one who exists apart from all of men's agendas, the God who takes you away when there is no possible place you can go.

You want something? Go get it with single-minded devotion.

Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

Devotion means for the total; it is never for Rama, never for Krishna. Of course, Rama and Krishna are implied in the total, but it is never for a chosen one. Love is always for the chosen one, devotion is for the whole. So you cannot be a devotee of Rama. If you are for Rama, you are only a lover; and when you are a lover, then competition is bound to be there. Then Krishna will be a competitor, and Christ will be a competitor, and the same jealousies, the same conflicts, and all the same nonsense will follow. It has followed.

But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.

Give full attention and devotion to each act.

All who have lived according to God still live unto God, though they have departed this life. For this reason, God is called the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, since He is the God, not of the dead, but of the living

Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion.

Mrs Thatcher requires devotion as well as obedience.

We are so humbled and grateful to Google for their devotion to our teachers and students.

A Christian should know that God is a Creator, that God is an entity that is all-powerful and all knowledgeable, God is everywhere and God is an entity filled with grace, love, compassion and forgiveness, that Jesus is the son of God and Jesus came on earth to explain to people in a very revolutionary way the nature of God, that God was not a stern judge who was keeping track of 600 or so rules and regulations that you had to keep in order to be acceptable to God.

In front of you I commit myself to serve my country with devotion.

The athlete must make a devotion of his specialty.

Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. The palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.

If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirements.

Through knowledge and devotion, transcend all karma and be free.

Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.