Quotes About Devotion

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi. Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.

Dicho del Profeta Deseo No desees el mundo y Dios te amará. No desees lo que otros posees, y ellos te amarán.

Una barba mejor que la tuya. "Todos los verdaderos devotos llevan barba," dijo el Imán a su audiencia. "Muéstrenme una barba espesa y brillante, y yo les mostraré a un verdadero creyente!" "Mi cabra tiene una barba mucho más tupida y larga que la tuya," contestó Nasrudín. "¿Eso significa que es mejor musulmán que tú?".

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.

Un instante en presencia de los Amigos (Sufis) es mejor que cien años de dedicación sincera y obediente

Servicio No serviré a Dios como un obrero a la espera de mi salario. Rabia el-Adawia.

The selection and following of a spiritual guide is the most important duty of a Sufi.

Sirri al-Saqati, who died in 867 of the Christian Era, said: 'True wisdom is: non-attachment to self and devotion to Truth.

Sirri al-Siqati, que murió en 867 de la era cristiana, dijo: La verdadera sabiduría es el no apego al yo y la devoción a la verdad.

The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.

No serviré a Dios como un obrero a la espera de mi salario.

Quien es purificado por el amor, es puro; y quien es absorbido en el Amado y ha abandonado todo lo demás, es un Sufi. Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah

The Third Method of Prayer is that with each breath in or out, one has to pray mentally, saying one word of the Our Father, or of another prayer which is being recited: so that only one word be said between one breath and another, and while the time from one breath to another lasts, let attention be given chiefly to the meaning of such word, or to the person to whom he recites it, or to his own baseness, or to the difference from such great height to his own so great lowness.

What force is more potent than love?

You bet I'm a patriot!' I exclaimed. 'It's because I'm a patriot, that I can't bear our country.

She put her hands together in a pious attitude and segued into a Princess Bride persona. "Mawwiage . . . mawwiage is what bwings us togevah today . . . mawwiage and twue wuv.

God wants to be the most important thing in our lives. He wants to be our first passion, our first thought in the morning. He wants to be what gives our life purpose.

When you love someone, you expect them to love you back the same way - with a singleness of heart.

Tonight, I ask, on behalf of Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, will you do what no other young women are called to do, and place your lives and honor at the feet of your country?

And life definitely doesn't want me To just let it tell me that the girl I met, The beautiful, amazing, strong, resilient girl That I fell so hard for Should only come in third Life knows. Life is trying to tell ne That the girl I love The girl I fell So hard for? There's room for her in first. I'm putting her first.

The fact is…I'm in love with you, and I have been for some time.

You didn't think I'd let you go alone, did you?" No, but I'm grateful that I had you with me." Grateful is all I'm going to get, isn't it?" What else were you hoping for?" Adoration, devotion, affection, infatuation, or just plain finding me irresistible." Sorry, Don Juan. You'll have to live with my undying gratitude.

What are you doing?" Kneeling before a goddess." I'm not a goddess." You are. A goddess, a princess, a queen. As a soldier, I pledge myself to your service. As a prince, I grant you any boon within my power. As a man, I ask to sit at your feet and worship you. Ask me to do anything for you and I will do it.

I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She's tied me to her for eternity. She's my home. She's my reason for being. To win and hold her heart is my only purpose.