Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.
I do devotion in the morning. I pray and I read the word.
Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.