Quotes About Devotion

I don't need a guarantee if I have you.

A girl's love for her father. Immutable. Unbearable but unbreakable.

You have a child, so you know. You are my heart, baby girl. You are everything I did right. And I want you to know I would do it all again, every wonderful terrible second of it. I would do years and years of it again for one minute with you.

You are of me, Loreda, in a way that can never be broken. Not by words or anger or actions or time. I love you. I will always love you.

She waited for you in a thousand different ways.

I loved you both with all of my damaged heart.

my love for you will outlive me.

It's a promise ring," he said solemnly. "The lady at the store said it's what you give the girl you love. It means I want to marry you someday.

I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones.

He leans close and kisses each of my cheeks, whispering, "I loved her all of my life," as he draws back.

If love is a disease, I suppose I'm infected.

He wanted to be angry, to scream and rail and feel honest-to-God outrage. But he wasn't that kind of man. His love for Mikaela was more than just an emotion; it was the sum total of who he was. This one thing he knew above everything else. He loved Mikaela too much. Which in its way was as bad as loving someone not enough.

She needed Matthew, but not to save her or complete her or reinvent her. Her love for him was the clearest, cleanest, strongest emotion she'd ever felt. It was like opening your eyes or growing up, realizing that you had it in you to love like this. Forever. For all time. Or for all the time you had.

Samwise Gamgee would never leave Frodo like this. No hero would ever do this. But books were only a reflection of real life, not the thing itself.

You know what I love most about you, Leni Allbright?" "What?" "Everything.

There is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place… do the next thing with diligence and devotion.

The point behind mysticism is not to dazzle the mind with ecstatic wonders or heady feelings, but to foster real and lasting changes, for the purpose of becoming more like Christ, which is to say, more compassionate, more forgiving, more committed to serving others and making the world a better place.

Here — your shirt , he said, after. Lifting it. Bringing it to me as if it were not a shirt but a thing immaculate, or in flames, or— with a single sword positioned through it— a sacred heart.

I have come to recognize that the reason I devote myself to research, and to the building of theory, is to satisfy a need for perceiving order and meaning, a subjective need which exists in me.

She was in his heart, in his very soul, and the love he felt for her was so much more than that of an adolescent boy for his first girlfriend.

When I love I can no longer do as I will. When I love I am love's prisoner; and love is tremendous in its demands.

One hour a day, one day a month, eight days a year, for longer if necessary, you must leave everything and everybody and retire, alone with God. If you don't look for this solitude, if you don't love it, you won't achieve real contemplative prayer.

This is crucial: as long as we pray only when and how we want to, our life of prayer is bound to be unreal. It will run in fits and starts.

Prayer is the sum of our relationship with God. We are what we pray. The degree of our faith is the degree of our prayer.