Quotes About Devotion

It is consummate folly to tolerate every variety of opinion, on every topic, out of devotion to an abstract "liberty"; for opinion soon finds its expression in action, and the fanatics whom we tolerated will not tolerate us when they have power.

A servant with this clauseMakes drudgery divine:Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws,Makes that and th' action fine.

Teach me, my God and King,In all things thee to seeAnd what I do in any thing,To do it as for thee.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

When once your foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there, than thou: for thou art there Only by his permission. Then beware, And make thyself all reverence and fear. Kneeling ne'er spoil'd silk stocking: quit thy state All equal are within the church's gate.

Wherefore with my utmost art I will sing thee, And the cream of all my heart I will bring thee.

Thou art my loveliness, my life, my light, Beauty alone to me.

I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

They were plighted; they were one eternally; they could not be parted. She listened gravely, conceiving the infinity as a narrow dwelling where a voice droned and ceased not. However, she listened. She became an attentive listener.

A tried stedfast woman is the one jewel of the sex. She points to her husband like the sunflower; her love illuminates him; she lives in him, for him; she testifies to his worth; she drags the world to his feet; she leads the chorus of his praises; she justifies him in his own esteem. Surely there is not on earth such beauty!

Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

His helmet now shall make a hive for bees,And lovers' sonnets turned to holy psalms,A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees,And feed on prayers, which are age his alms.

As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

Paul repeatedly promises Christians that nothing can separate them from the love of that God who is "for" them.

You're mine and I'm yours. And if we die, we die, but first we'll live.

The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.

I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.

A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.

She had never loved him so much as she did in that instant.

Hodor," said Hodor.