Quotes About Devotion

If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God.

And with love, ambitions!

Like any lover, he desired to please; suffered agonies at the thought of failure.

Entangled and besotted as he was, he no longer wished for anything else than to pursue the beloved object that inflamed him, to dream about him when he was absent and to speak amorous phrases, after the manner of lovers, to his mere shadow.

Aunque no tuviera yo el mar y la playa, permanecería aquí mientras tú no te fueras.

It seems to me, however, that despite the logical, moral rigor music may appear to display, it belongs to a world of spirits, for whose absolute reliability in matters of human reason and dignity I would not exactly want to put my hand in the fire. That I am nevertheless devoted to it with all my heart is one of those contradictions which, whether a cause for joy or regret, are inseparable from human nature.

The one who loves most becomes subordinate and must suffer—his

What do you want to want to be, anyway? I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic. What you should say--he told me--what you should say is that you want to be a saint.

For true humility is, in a way, a very real despair: despair of myself, in order that I may hope entirely in You.

The climate of this prayer is, then, one of awareness, gratitude and a totally obedient love which seeks nothing but to please God.

It can be said, without fear of error, that our meditation is as good as our faith.

But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact pleases You.

The mercy of God demands to be known and recognized and set apart from everything else and praised and adored in joy.

Get warm any way you can, and love God and pray.

I don't even need to know precisely what I am doing, except that I am acting for the love of God.

Freedom is perfect when no other love can impede our desire to love God

I need my heart to be moved by you.

It often happens, as a matter of fact, that so called "pious souls" take their "spiritual life" with a wrong kind of seriousness.

It was because the saints were absorbed in God that they were truly capable of seeing and appreciating created things and it was because they loved Him alone that they alone loved everybody. S

We do not see God in contemplation - we know Him by love: for his pure love and when we taste the experience of loving God for his own sake alone, we know by experience who and what he is.

As soon as one is conscious of the presence of the Master, one must, in all passivity, abandon the work to Him.

For it seems to me that the first responsibility of a man of faith is to make his faith really part of his own life, not by rationalizing it but by living it.

your eyes must turn, again and again, to the House that hides the Sacramental Christ!

St. Augustine adds that God has taught us to praise Him, in the Psalms, not in order that He may get something out of this praise, but in order that we may be made better by it. Praising God in the words of the Psalms, we can come to know Him better. Knowing Him better we love Him better, loving Him better we find our happiness in Him.