“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.” IfsBookSoulReadingImpossibleProduceReadyComfortMerePassionateAccessDevotionBuyingReachingCherishEcstasyInfinityReassurance Author:A. Edward Newton
“Knowledge without devotion to God produces hatred.” ProduceHatredDevotionDevotion To God Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.” MenStatesDoneEvilUnitedProduceTerribleDevotionExclusiveWhy Now Book:Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers Source: Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers
“So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say that he is quickening a false devotion almost all over the world, increasing the number of pilgrims to Mecca, multiplying the offerings to the most famous impostors, inducing men to build mosques for Mohammedan worship, causing the invention of new superstitions among the dervishes - in a word, stimulating many abominable things which otherwise might not have been.” MenWorldHas BeensMightWould BePurposeNumbersAtheismProduceWorshipPositive AtheismInventionDevotionBeing TrueOfferingSuperstitionsWrathPilgrimMosquesCometsMeccaMultiplyingQuickeningPurpose Of God Author:Pierre Bayle
“Every Holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know...It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass!” KnowsSoulEarthSpiritualSunGraceHeardSacrificeEffectsProduceMaterialsEasierHolyMassDevotionMarvelousHoly Mass Author:Pio of Pietrelcina