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Devotion Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.”

John D. Rockefeller

2. “I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off’ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.”

Charles Lamb

3. “For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.”

Charles Lamb

4. “When true hearts lie wither’d And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?”

Charles Lamb

5. “It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.”

Charles Lamb

6. “When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.”

Charles Lamb

7. “Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.”

Margaret Fuller

8. “To be a devout Muslim was always to have distinctive things to do; it was to be guided constantly by rules; it was to live in a fever of the faith and always to be aware of the distinctiveness of the faith.”

V.S. Naipaul

9. “Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.”

Ramakrishna

10. “Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life.”

Ramakrishna

11. “Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.”

Ramakrishna

12. “Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.”

Ramakrishna

13. “Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise, they can never attain perfection.”

Ramakrishna

14. “There is no hope for a worldly man if he is not sincerely devoted to God.”

Ramakrishna

15. “The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as “I am such an important man” or “I am so and so.” Level the mound of “I” to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.”

Ramakrishna

16. “Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.”

Ramakrishna

17. “One cannot completely get rid of the six passions: lust, anger, greed, and the like. Therefore one should direct them to God. If you must have desire and greed, then you should desire love of God and be greedy to attain Him.”

Ramakrishna

18. “Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.”

Ramakrishna

19. “More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.”

Ramakrishna

20. “Man suffers through lack of faith in God.”

Ramakrishna

21. “Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.”

Ramakrishna

22. “Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.”

Ramakrishna

23. “It is necessary to pray to Him, with a longing Heart.”

Ramakrishna

24. “If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.”

Ramakrishna

25. “If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.”

Ramakrishna

26. “If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.”

Ramakrishna

27. “If you keep your heart immersed always in the ocean of divine love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the waters of divine love.”

Ramakrishna

28. “If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him.”

Ramakrishna

29. “If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.”

Ramakrishna

30. “If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.”

Ramakrishna

31. “I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.”

Ramakrishna

32. “He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.”

Ramakrishna

33. “God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.”

Ramakrishna

34. “Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.”

Ramakrishna

35. “At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.”

Ramakrishna

36. “As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee’s feet.”

Ramakrishna

37. “As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.”

Ramakrishna

38. “As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.”

Ramakrishna

39. “A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.”

Ramakrishna

40. “I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

41. “A lover’s soul lives in the body of his mistress.”

Plutarch

42. “Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic ’til I’m gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.”

Leonard Cohen

43. “If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery.”

Leonard Cohen

44. “When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and light and water to testify against you.”

Leonard Cohen

45. “I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second-hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.”

Leonard Cohen

46. “If you want a lover I’ll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I’ll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in life take my hand. I’m your man.”

Leonard Cohen

47. “We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity.”

Leonard Cohen

48. “Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love.”

Leonard Cohen

49. “I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.”

Leonard Cohen

50. “I loved you for a long, long time I know this love is real It don’t matter how it all went wrong That don’t change the way I feel And I can’t believe that time’s Gonna heal this wound I’m speaking of There ain’t no cure for love.”

Leonard Cohen

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