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Quotes About Devotion

Even he with the worst of karma who ceaselessly meditates on Me quickly loses the effects of his past bad actions. Becoming a high-souled being, he soon attains perennial peace. Know this for certain: the devotee who puts his trust in Me never perishes!
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The divine order arranges our future more wisely than any insurance company." The master's concluding words were the realised creed of his faith. "The world is full of uneasy believers in an outward security. Their bitter thoughts are like scars on their foreheads. The One who gave us air and milk from our first breath knows how to provide day by day for His devotees.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
El Ser Divino que nos concedió aire y leche desde el primer aliento sabe cómo sustentar día tras día a sus devotos.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
true devotee is finally freed from all instinctive compulsions. He transforms his need for human affection into aspiration for God alone—a love solitary because omnipresent. Sri
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
As soon as the devotee is willing to go even to the ends of the earth for spiritual enlightenment, his guru appears nearby." I
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
God can live without man's love; but as the wave cannot live without the ocean, so it is not possible for man to exist without the love of God.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Always have I loved thee! Ever shall I love thee!
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Lord responds to all and works for all. Just as He sent rain at my plea, so He fulfills any sincere desire of the devotee. Seldom do men realise how often God heeds their prayers. He is not partial to a few, but listens to everyone who
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: but he that is married careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife." 1 I had analysed the lives of many of my friends who, after undergoing certain spiritual discipline, had then married. Launched on the sea of worldly responsibilities, they had forgotten their resolutions to meditate deeply. To
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
In order to reach the superconscious, affirmations must be free from all uncertainties, doubts, and inattention. Attention and devotion are lights that can lead even blindly uttered affirmations to the subconscious and the superconscious. The greater the power of attention and devotion, the farther they can usher the vibrations of different affirmations to their subconscious or superconscious destinations. Cures
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The world is full of uneasy believers in an outward security. Their bitter thoughts are like scars on their foreheads. The One who gave us air and milk from our first breath knows how to provide day by day for His devotees.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The Himalayas in India and Tibet have no monopoly on saints. What one does not trouble to find within will not be discovered by transporting the body hither and yon. As soon as the devotee is willing to go even to the ends of the earth for spiritual enlightenment, his guru appears nearby.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
your experiences of the Divine in terms of love and devotion shall be translated into his terms of fathomless wisdom.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
No seas egoísta —me dijo—; no sientas pesar por mí. Por largo tiempo les he servido gustosamente; ahora, regocíjense y deséenme un raudo viaje hacia Dios. Voy a ver a mi Amado Cósmico.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Loving God with all thy mind, means withdrawing one's attention from the senses and giving it to God, giving to Him one's whole concentration in meditation. Every seeker of God must learn to concentrate. A prayer that one utters while at the same time thinking of other things in the background of his mind is not a true prayer and is unheeded by God. Yoga teaches that in order to find the Father it is first necessary to seek Him with all one's mind with concentration that is one-pointed.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Many a morning and evening found Mother and me meditating before an improvised shrine, offering flowers dipped in fragrant sandalwood paste. With frankincense and myrrh as well as our united devotions, we honored the divinity which had found full expression in Lahiri Mahasaya.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Basking day by day in the sunshine of my guru's love, unspoken but keenly felt, I banished from my conscious mind the various hints he had given of his approaching passing.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
~ Pascal
she lived a life almost obsessively devoted to triviality. She'd turned into a pond skater, not because she didn't know what lay beneath the surface, but precisely because she did.
~ Pat Barker
He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.
~ Pat Conroy
Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.
~ Pat Conroy
South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
~ Pat Conroy
I will always find myself a prisoner to the divine sublimity of the Eucharist itself. (201)
~ Pat Conroy
I love you. I worn' about you. I wonder whether I tell you enough how I love you and want you and need you and how I am diminished and afraid when you are not with me and how I am multiplied when you are here." His
~ Pat Frank