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Quotes About Devotion

I will love you more today than I loved you yesterday, and I will love you even more, tomorrow.
~ William Chapman
Beauty is the lover's gift.
~ William Congreve
England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
~ William Cowper
Oh! for a closer walk with God.
~ William Cowper
Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!
~ William Cowper
The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road That leads me to the Lamb.
~ William Cowper
But Khair did not need such proof of her husband's love for her. Over and over again, James had risked everything for her. Most reationshps in life can survive - or not - without being put to any real crucial, fundamental test. It was James's fate for his love to be tested not once, but four times...At each stage he could easily have washed his hands off his teenage lover. Each time he chose to remain true to her. That, not the words of any will, was the evidence she could cling to.
~ William Dalrymple
Any singer who arrived in Shahajahanabad claiming distinction in the art would forget their sur and taal [note and beat] after hearing only one bar of his music and would accept the dust of his feet as the decoration of their eye…
~ William Dalrymple
I am yours, for time and eternity--time and eternity.
~ William Dean Howells
All love is lost but upon God alone.
~ William Dunbar
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
~ William Ellery Channing
True love is the parent of humility.
~ William Ellery Channing
The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)
~ William Goldman
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
~ William Goldman
The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)
~ William Goldman
God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,' as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.
~ William Gurnall
Be not Christians by halves, but go through with it; the thorough Christian is the true Christian.
~ William Gurnall
The more the soul loves the word, the more craving it has after it.
~ William Gurnall
Prayer must be the key of the morning and lock of the night.
~ William Gurnall
The praying Christian is the thriving Christian; whereas he that is infrequent or slothful in praying, is a waster.
~ William Gurnall
To pray always may import as much as to pray in all conditions; that is, in prosperity as well as in adversity. So Calvin takes it: omni tempore perinde valet, atque tam prosperis quâm adversis—it holds at all times equally, and as much in prosperity as in adversity.
~ William Gurnall
Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by this heroic spirit; to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils." J.
~ William Gurnall
Story tells us of some Turks who have, upon the sight of Mahomet's tomb, put their eyes out, that they might not defile them, forsooth! with any common object after they had been blessed with seeing one so sacred.
~ William Gurnall
Love is another heavenly grace; but faith gathers the fuel that makes this fire.
~ William Gurnall