Quotes About Devotion

I would like to devote myself to the dharma completely and fully.

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

They alone are sons who are devoted to their father. He is a father who supports his sons. He is a friend in whom we can confide, and she only is a wife in whose company the husband feels contented and peaceful.

For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.

What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more?

I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for you. -- Eric Northman

I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for you. -- Eric Northman

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer." She reread the passage three times, then closed her Bible and her eyes. "Oh,

The crazy ones are mostly crazy because love made them that way.

He only loved his love for me

Repeat after me…Our Father, who art in heaven…" "Barukh atah adonai, eloheinu…" "Stop.

Fear and wonder rendered him powerless. An occurrence like this, in a place assigned to devotion, was adapted to intimidate the stoutest heart.

The third preventive for callousness is the life of prayer (Heb. 4:14–16).

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but--live for it.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

A word love has made a thousand books. (Un mot amour A fait mille livres.)

For him, she bends over backwards. It is origami of the heart. (Pour lui, elle se plie en quatre. - C'est l'origami du cœur)

Lover scuttles his body, because he sinks in happiness. (L'amoureux saborde son corps, - Car il coule dans le bonheur.)

The lovers unsheathe their eyes. (Les amoureux - Dégainent leurs yeux.)

Two lovers watch themselves, it's a shipwreck by fire. (Se regardent deux amoureux : - C'est un naufrage par le feu.)

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. . . . I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. . . . I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.