Quotes About Devotion

Love, to be real, must cost - it must hurt - it must empty us of self.

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

Work without love is slavery.

Let us do something beautiful for God.

God loves the world through us.

You can do no great things, just small things with great love.

Motto of the Benedictines

If you long for the face of the Beloved, Wash your heart from every face, image, and all.

Spiritual aspirants must diligently follow the teaching. Practicing devotion to God has the effect of turning the mind towards the Divine and this leads to purity of feeling and thinking. Essentially, spiritual practice is a worship of the Divinity within oneself.

One hour's meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer

One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.

The prophet of God declares that the faith of the believer is not complete, unless he love God and his prophet more than all the world besides.

Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.

When we devote all of our actions to a spiritual goal, everything that we do becomes a prayer.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God." -Muhammad Ali

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

Materijalno blagostanje ne mora biti znak Božanske blagonaklonosti. Bog ga daje onima ciju zahvalnost želi da ispita. Bog ga uskracuje onima ciju strpljivost želi da ispita. Oba ta slucaja za covjeka je najvažnije da pokaže svoju pobožnost, svoju odanost Stvoritelju. To zahtijeva s jedne strane potiskivanje svoga egoizma i utapanje u Božansku volju, a s druge strane stalno osjecanje stvarnog Božijeg prisustva.

Three things take the slave to God's pleasure: 1) Increase in seeking forgiveness 2) Gentleness 3) Increased charity giving

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Although rare, even to this day such are found in this community. Who do their wudu using the tears they shed during their predawn supplications.