With devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself

If a minister wants to be a man among men he need only to stop creating devotion to abstract ideals which every one accepts in theory and denies in practice, and to agonize about their validity and practicability in the social issues which he and others face in our present civilization.

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

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse of devotion.

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

Phil Gramm had a stump speech about how his mother’s devotion kept him from being an academic failure in life. She got him into a special school that turned him around – under a government program for the children of deceased veterans. He was repeatedly asked at press conferences why he would then turn around and support draconian cuts in federal funding for education. He never had an answer.

I just continue to do my work with dedication. Really, it’s my listeners who have given me 40 years of bhushana. However, my ultimate probably would be to sing in front of god. That will be something.

God is love, love is bhakti and bhakti our connection to God.

The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD

To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything

If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

The fruition of this process is samadhi which yields release, which is the state of unsurpassed bliss. The revered Gurus also have said that release is to be gained only by devotion which is of the nature of reflection on the truth of the Self.

Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?

They say you basic, I flooded the Rollie with diamonds.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking

How much that strange confession explained to him! The painter’s absurd fits of jealousy, his wild devotion, his extravagant panegyrics, his curious reticences — he understood them all now, and he felt sorry. There seemed to him to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.

The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the True One.

Life comes to pass, yet death is very much closer.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble for anybody.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to-do’ list.

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

Entrepreneurship is about creating change, not just companies.

A land without myths is like a sky without stars.

It doesn’t matter if I am better than Cristiano Ronaldo, all that matters is that Barcelona are better than Madrid.

I have never stopped being Argentine, and I have never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, even though I left there. Barcelona is my home because the club and the people here have given me everything, but I will not stop being Argentine