Quotes About Devotion

What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Keep the commandments.

There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.

I will take your heart. I will take your soul out of your body As though I were God. I will not be satisfied With the little words you say to me. I will not be satisfied With the touch of your hand Nor the sweet of your lips alone. I will take your heart for mine. I will take your soul. I will be God when it comes to you.

Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you.

These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.

I never cared," he said. "I wanted you anyway. I always wanted you.

I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away. - Clary Fray

And I would do it again. I love you, Jace Wayland-Herondale-Lightwood-whatever you want to call yourself. I don't care. I love you and I will always love you, and pretending it could be any other ways is just a waste of time.

I love you Clary. More then I ever-- God. More than i probably should. You know that, don't you?

You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.

The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love."— Madame Dorothea

Jem told me what Ragnor Fell said about my father," Will said. "That for my father, there was only ever one woman he loved, and it was her for him, or nothing. You are that for me. I love you, and I will only ever love you until I die —

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that

Wo wei ni xie de," he said, as he raised the violin to his left shoulder, tucking it under his chin. He had told her many violinists used a shoulder rest, but he did not: there was a slight mark on the side of his throat, like a permanent bruise, where the violin rested. "You — made something for me?" Tessa asked. "I wrote something for you," he corrected, with a smile, and began to play.

We are bound together, Emma, bound together—I breathe when you breathe, I bleed when you bleed, I'm yours and you're mine, you've always been mine, and I have always, always belonged to you!

And now," Eric yelled into his mircophone, "we're going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This one's for my girlfriend. We've been going out for three weeks, and, damn, our love is true. We're gonna be together forever, baby. This one's called 'Bang You Like a Drum.

For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything.

His eyes went soft and silver as she spoke. "Zhe shi jie shang, wo shi zui ai ne de," he whispered. She understood it. In all the world, you are what I love the most.

I love you, Julian Blackthorn. I love you more than starlight.

I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then.

He began it," Cecily said, jerking her chin at Will, though she knew it was pointless. Jem, Will's parabatai, treated her with the distant sweet kindness reserved for the little sisters of one's friends, but he would always side with Will. Kindly, but firmly, he put Will above everything else in the world. Well, nearly everything.