Quotes About Devotion

My chief care should not be to find pleasure or success, health or life or money or rest or even things like virtue and wisdom—still less their opposites, pain, failure, sickness, death. But in all that happens, my one desire and my one joy should be to know: "Here is the thing that God has willed for me. In this His love is found, and in accepting this I can give back His love to Him and give myself with it to Him. For in giving myself I shall find Him and He is life everlasting.

It is lawful to love all things and to seek them, once they become means to the love of God. There is nothing we cannot ask of Him if we desire it in order that He may be more loved by ourselves or by other men.

The simple, chaste lines of a monastic Church, built perhaps by unskilled hands in the wilderness, may well say infinitely more in praise of God than the pretentious enormities of costly splendor that are erected to be looked at rather than to be prayed in.

it is much better to desire God without being able to think clearly of Him, than to have marvelous thoughts about Him without desiring to enter into union with His will.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.

Above all, enter into the Church's liturgy and make the liturgical cycle part of your life—let its rhythm work its way into your body and soul.

I will give them a heart to understand that I am Yahweh, and they shall be my people and I will be their God when they return to me with all their heart. —JEREMIAH 24:7

For if we have no real interest in praising Him, it shows that we have never realized who He is.

But there is nothing to prevent a layman from taking just one Psalm a day, for instance in his night prayers, and reciting it thoughtfully, pausing to meditate on the lines which have the deepest meaning for him.

He is most glorified by those in whom His mercy has produced the greatest love.

Father," I answered, "I want to give God everything.

No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close, As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets The same look which she turned when he rose!

The friendship that like live is warm; a love like friendship, steady.

Remember that Puritans were utterly devoted, like literary critics, to the Word.

Love is love. It shows up in strange displacement.

Fuck the war. They were in love.

But, my darling, if you love me,' thought Miss Meadows, 'I don't mind how much it is. Love me as little as you like.

Love! Love! Your tenderness, Your beautiful, watchful ways

Do you feel in this letter my love for you today - It is as warm as a bird's nest.

Permanecer siempre fiel a un antiguo amor es a veces el secreto de toda una vida».

You can and you must. Go to the man you love and love him in whatever way you can for as long as you can. Love him in whatever way you can.

O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me!

As author Daphne Rose Kingma says, "Love is trying to find us." Love is insisting that we up the ante. Love works these days only when entered into for loving reasons—to extend and expand, to give and to grow, to bless and be blessed.

Adieu the clang of war's alarms! To other deeds my soul is strung, And sweeter notes shall now be sung; My harp shall all its powers reveal, To tell the tale my heart must feel; Love, Love alone, my lyre shall claim, In songs of bliss and sighs of flame.