Quotes of: Devotions Keyword

Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.

John Grogan

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

Herbert Marcuse

I think the level of devotion some sci-fi fans display turns other people off.

James Callis

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

Bill Watterson

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

Gustave Flaubert

Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.

John McCarthy

The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.

David Augsburger

I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

Dan Deacon

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

Ben Bradlee

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

John D. Rockefeller

We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

Charles Bass

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Abraham Cowley

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Adela Florence Nicolson

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Vladimir Lenin

Love is not a feeling of attraction between each other.But it is an open devotion between between the two.

Vyshakh Rajachandran

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Mary Wilson Little

I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my...

Dearly Devoted Dexter

Often we feel that love results from others caring or providing for us, but our deepest emotional ties usually result from our investment in others. When someone says they’ve quit loving another, I often sense that the lack of love results from fai...

Love is a Verb Devotional: 365 Daily Inspirations to Bring Love Alive

Contrary to what a lot of people believe (or hope), comfort doesn’t take the pain away. Comfort slides in beside the pain, pulling up a chair so that we have something more than sorrow in our hearts. Comfort gently expands our spirits so that we ca...

Strugglers, Stragglers and Seekers: daily devotions for the rest of us

The aspirant would do well to avoid those ‘spiritual teachers’ who delight in pointing out the evils of the world. These are immature egos attempting to discard their own negativities by projecting them onto others. The true yogi is one who is li...

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras