Despair the twin-born of devotion.
The pure mystic wishes to approach his God only in the all-embracing love. The yogi, too, walks toward one single aspect of God. The bhakti-yogi keeps to the road of love and devotion, the raja and hatha yogi choose the path of self-control or volition, the jnana yogi will follow that of wisdom and cognition.
few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.
Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.
Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.
While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.
Devotion (Bhakti) includes Sentimental Devotion (Bhav Bhakti) and Devotion through action (Kruti Bhakti).
Abe glanced at Rose. "You see that?" he said. "Now that's devotion. " She rolled her eyes at him.
Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification.
The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.
To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.
A man is no true Christian if he has no devotion to the Mother of Jesus Christ.
Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
Every Holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know. . . It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass!
Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
The secret of true happiness lies within unwavering devotion to God
What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.