Devotion Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old devotion quotes, devotion sayings, and devotion proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart -- a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water -- I accept with joy. Bhagavad Gita
You can hear a song in every word if you listen closely enough. Christopher M. Milo
To submit one's self to one's gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one's gift Sunday Adelaja
We know the battle ahead will be long. But always remember that, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. Barack Obama
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it l Erica Jong
True devotion is motivated by love alone and devoid of selfish entanglements. Rick Hocker
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life. John Ortberg
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. Henry Miller
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. B.C Forbes
Its amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. Harry Truman
Work as if everything depends on you.  Pray as if everything depends on God. St. Ignatius Loyola
Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others. Andy Stanley
Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts. Henry Rollins
You have to plan it [your devotion to God] every day. And, the best time to plan it is before your day begins. If you don't plan it, your day will plan you. And so, I make a disciplined life of the study of the scriptures, reading the word every day. Ravi Zacharias
Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. Jeffrey McDaniel
Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word. Dani Shapiro
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. Thomas Fuller
Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first. Shannon L. Alder
Everybody wants their own little place in the world and maybe mine is here… Loving you from a distance. Ranata Suzuki
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church. Edith Stein
Devotion is the realization that wealth, education and power are God given gifts and not the endowments of fate. Rev. Pandurang Shashtri Athavale
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. R. D. Laing
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. Donna Roberts
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis Stevenson
To achieve progress and development it is necessary to bring about co-ordination between liberty and security through Devotion. Pandurang Shashtri Athavale
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own. Nikos Kazantzakis
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. Audrey Hepburn
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. William Faulkner
I don't need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of. Alice Walker
Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. Frank Gaines
Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. Corrie ten Boom
Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness. Debbie Ford
To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world. Bill Wilson
Devotion is diligence without assurance. Elizabeth Gilbert
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. Oprah Winfrey
What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of neighbourhood, the bonds of country, to range plains, valleys, hills, mountains, for a new flower. Dorothea Dix
With devotion at the center of your awareness, you don't have to refer to your past in order to make a choice of how to respond or react in any given situation. Debbie Ford
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. Charles Buxton
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about. Oscar Wilde
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. Rev. Pandurang Shashtri Athavale
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. Thornton Wilder
It is by undivided devotion that I can be known in such a form, truly seen, and entered into. Bhagavad Gita
Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in. Lao Tzu
Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we live. But, how much can we contribute to others in our society. Buddha
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. Adela Florence Nicolson
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. Mother Teresa
You don't discipline yourself to attain the feeling of love. You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline yourself because you love the discipline, because it brings more love. Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Our ultimate devotion is to be a reflection of a divine work that is continuously unfolding in our hearts. Andrena Sawyer
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. Sam Levenson
One who has devotion recognizes God to be present everywhere and in everyone, including in images. B.R. Suhas
A devotee perceives the presence of God in images through devotion. B.R. Suhas
God is not present in wood, or stone, or an idol made of clay. God is present in devotion. Therefore, devotion is very important. Suktimala
All is holy where devotion kneels. O.W. Holmes
The secret heart is devotion's temple; there the saint lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen but not accepted. Hannah More
The inward signs of humble penitence rise to the ear of heaven, when peeled hymns are scattered to the common air. Joanna Baillie
Solid devotions resemble the rivers which run under the earth— they steal from the eyes of the world to seek the eyes of God, and it often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. Caussin
The best and sweetest flowers in paradise, God gives to is people when they are on their knees in the closet. T. Brooks
Prayer without devotion is not a prayer. If a man prays without devotion, he should repeat his prayer with devotion. Maimonides
Blessed are those who have devotion in their hearts. It is the only reality in this world, other things are false. Swami Paramananda
True devotion has wonderful power. Through it, a devotee can bring out divinity even from a stone. Swami Paramananda
The goal can be attained very easily through the power of faith and devotion, and never through the power of reasoning. Sri Ramakrishna
If you want to be a true devotee, you must be above all worldly thoughts and deeds. No earthly condition should ever disturb your peace. Swami Paramananda
True devotion brings you to a state where you live with your Ideal in every moment of your life. Swami Paramananda
Not lost from my young years / Is silent devotion to a sound of bells, / To all churches' dusking altars / And their blue domes heaven-wide. Georg Trakl
The heart can think of no devotion / Greater than being shore to ocean - / Holding the curve of one position, / Counting an endless repetition. Robert Frost
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
I'm gonna fight for you until your heart stops beating. Stephenie Meyer
Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you. Ranata Suzuki
Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty. Jaggi Vasudev
No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it. Matsuo Basho
Your depth of commitment, / your quality of service, / the product of your devotion -- / these are the things that count in life. Scott O'Grady
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Sogyal Rinpoche
In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated. Willie Mays
You, too, can be carved anew by the details of your devotion. Mary Oliver
In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm. Joseph Addison
One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life. Saint Francis De Sales
Devotion means your involvement with life is no more conditional. Jaggi Vasudev
Devotion, like fire, goeth upward. Zoroaster