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There will also be some people who concentrate their attention on the rituals of worship and the offerings being made, such as the breaking of coconuts, the waving of lamps and incense, and the devotion expressed through these rituals. The number of people with this kind of vision and interest will be much smaller than those who concentrate on the decorations, the dances and dramas and all the external paraphernalia associated with the festival.

There is no way to measure accurately the number of lives Roger Neilson touched, inside and outside the hockey world, during his lifetime of devotion to our game.

It's a ceremony to honor those who gave the last full measure of devotion for the freedoms we enjoy today. They did not die in a combat situation, but they were members of the military and were eventually going to be deployed to a military situation.

It's my devotion to the cause that keeps me helping out each year,

Their dedication and devotion to duty has been, to say the least, epic.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen

If our fellow men could be aware of our opinions about them, love, friendship, and devotion would be forever erased from the dictionaries; and if we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

If you ever come to feel any doubt of my character or of my heartfelt devotion to you... the title of Father of My Country will give me no additional honor, but will be a reproach to you, either for your hasty action in conferring the appellation upon me, or for your inconsistency in changing your estimate of my character.

In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and the country to join our Party, the name of which is the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.

Calling on you to give up control of the outer world and gladly accept control of your inner relationship with God, devotion is essential for fully realizing your soul's calling.

Charlie's demonstrated leadership in government and the private sector as well as his extraordinary devotion to Vermont make this a perfect match.

By devotion one truly understand what and who I am in essence. Having known Me in essence, one immediately merges into Me.

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Genre pleasures are many, but the quality of shared values within an ongoing discussion may be the most powerful, enlisting lifelong devotion in its fans.

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Let us have no further blind devotion to the communist dominated United Nations!

I feel in honoring me you have honored my country and its devotion - to the cause of peace and the development of higher civilization.

However, through single-minded devotion alone, I can be seen in this form, can be known in essence, and also can be reached, O Arjuna.

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

Gracie was our most consistent player at the tournament. Her devotion to the weight room really paid off. She was able to handle the physical defense we faced.

Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.

I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will draw out of them the last full measure of devotion. It is a doctrine for the deep believer but it will bring only scorn from the skeptic.

If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase.

The athlete must make a devotion of his specialty.

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.

The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him. It is easier to serve than to pour out our lives completely for Him.

Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.

There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.

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

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.

I knew nothing but love and devotion when I was growing up. Trust me, it makes everything easier.

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

When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about—more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.

A pause while my mother made high-pitched sisterly devotions of gratitude.

Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.

Their motivations have been impugned, often by those with only a remote connection to their father, ... No one should dispute Claudia and John Henry's devotion to their father. In fact, those closest to Ted Williams -- his dearest friends, his doctors and those he chose personally to oversee his estate -- consistently affirm it.

Alongside of knowledge, youth has to cultivate the good qualities of humility, reverence, devotion to God and steadfast faith. He has to engage himself in good works and enjoy them for the sheer elation they confer.

The devotion that young Chinese feel to the Internet is driven by deep factors ranging from youth unemployment and income inequality to political repression and the demographic imbalance between men and women.

The current attorney general is known for having had a focus on children and issues concerning children. That kind of focus and devotion of attention and energy is something that is obviously and legitimately in the attorney general's prerogative. But no, he or she must enforce the laws that Congress chooses to enact,

Religion to me is devotion to work and devotedly working is being religious.

Among them the wise one, who is ever united with Me and whose devotion is single minded, is the best. Because, I am very dear to the wise, and the wise is very dear to Me.

Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality?

Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification.

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.

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

Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential,

Devotion is diligence without assurance

Its from the deep waters that we come. And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters. We come with an unflinching devotion to the mystical and to God - representing life and embracing death.

If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.

Attention is the beginning of devotion.

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

Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson.

One grain of incense with devotion offer'd 'S beyond all perfumes of Sabaean spices.

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.

As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.

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.

Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed.

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

Complete self-devotion is woman's part.

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

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.

Abe glanced at Rose. "You see that?" he said. "Now that's devotion." She rolled her eyes at him.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion.

Other people's devotions embarrassed me, perhaps because, like other people's kisses, they rarely looked genuine when viewed too closely.

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.

[Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.

One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.

Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.

We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement.

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,--a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion.

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.

Of all the observations I have made on the strike, none has brought forth so much heat and emotion as the stress and emphasis we put on non- violence. Our most loyal supporters, whose courage and devotion has never been doubted, unanimously and stren

I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.

It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life , and that unless contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs.

What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.

Contentment with little or nothing to eat although one may have a great appetite; to awaken instantly although one may be in a deep slumber; unflinching devotion to the master; and bravery; these six qualities should be learned from the dog.

So our daily worship of God is not really the process of gradual acquisition of him, but the daily process of surrendering ourselves, removing all obstacles to union and extending our consciousness of him in devotion and service, in goodness and in l

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.

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

Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary

If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.

Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.