Quotes About Devotion

This is Declan." Declan nodded. "Mr…Reaper." Azagoth grunted. "So you're the human who stole my daughter from me." "I didn't steal her from you, sir." Declan wrapped his arm around her shoulder and held her tight against his big chest. "She'll always be your daughter. I'm just here to worship her.

I love you, Cat," he whispered. "I don't know what I did to deserve you, but I hope you know that I'd do it all over again to be with you. Thousands of years of loneliness was worth every second you've been in my life.

I'm not leaving you." Her hot breath whispered across his ear, and his groin tightened. "I'd rather die with you than die alone.

the girl somewhere, who reads you, whose skin has memorized your life. Nothing stops her fingers; they swim with you at night.

There is a vast difference between being in love and being loving. True love is built on the three pillars of complete loyalty, complete sacrifice, and complete trust.

Get a dog, and always be the person they think you are.

Larry Kramer's speech is Jewish in the devotion it displays to the messianic conviction that the truth liberates if its precepts are entirely engaged with, and lived.

One should be able to have the man one loves.

OK, kid, I've been thinking about this for a long time. I really love you, Dinky. I've missed you a lot. Your being away has made that abundantly clear. I can't live without you.

The bigger it got, the more fervent the liturgical incantations, and, at the moment of orgasm

Face the facts. If you do not begin to pray, you will not be any further along with the Lord next year than you are right now.

But Jesus didn't say, "If you love me, you'll fulfill your potential." He said, "If you love me, you will obey what I command."39

pattern of devotion in which "God" and Jesus feature as distinguishable and yet uniquely linked subjects and recipients of reverence in the setting of corporate worship.

It is remarkable that the intense Jesus-devotion reflected in Paul's letters, which constitute our earliest extant Christian writings, is more presupposed than expounded

In sum, it appears that the sort of Jesus-devotion reflected in Paul's letters was shared among Jewish believers in Roman Judea as well as among Paul's churches.

I have proposed that the devotional pattern reflected already in Paul's letters amounts to a distinctive "mutation" in Jewish monotheistic practice, in which Jesus features in an unprecedented way in worship directed to "God.

efforts to develop and defend his faith were convictions and devotional practices such as those already reflected in the NT.16

contend that the major factor was the inclusion of Jesus as a distinguishable figure along with "God" in early Christian devotion, producing the question of how to combine this with an exclusivist "monotheistic" stance.

but a new kind of monotheistic devotional practice in which "God" is worshiped typically with reference to Jesus, and Jesus is reverenced in obedience to "God" and to the glory of this God.

Jesus is central in NT references to early Christian ritual/devotional practices.

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?

Yeah, but I love you more than football and basketball.

I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.