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Quotes About Devotion

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.
~ James Joyce
Love me. Love my umbrella.
~ James Joyce
He imagined that he stood near Emma in a wide land and, humbly and in tears, bent and kissed the elbow of her sleeve.
~ James Joyce
He had felt proud and happy then, happy that she was his, proud of her grace and wifely carriage.
~ James Joyce
Ay say aye. I affirmly swear to it that it rooly and cooly boolyhooly was with my holyhagionous lips continuously poised upon the rubricated annuals of saint ulstar.
~ James Joyce
Her beliefs were not extravagant. She believed steadily in the Sacred Heart as the most generally useful of all Catholic devotions and approved of the sacraments. Her faith was bounded by her kitchen but, if she was put to it, she could believe also in the banshee and in the Holy Ghost.
~ James Joyce
Love loves to love love. Nurse loves the new chemist. Constable 14A loves Mary Kelly . . . Jumbo, the elephant, loves Alice, the elephant . . . You love a certain person. And this person loves that other person because everybody loves somebody but God loves everbody. ('Cyclops', ll. 1493–501)
~ James Joyce
God and morality and religion come first.
~ James Joyce
He vows her to be his own honeylamb, swears they will be papa pals, by Sam, and share good times way down west in a guaranteed happy lovenest when May moon she shines and they twit twinkle all night combing the comet's tail up right and shooting popguns at the stars.
~ James Joyce
Love loves to love love
~ James Joyce
or a jaculation from the garden of the soul.
~ James Joyce
Introibo ad altare Dei.
~ James Joyce
In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 'Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
~ James Joyce
Amour aime aimer amour!
~ James Joyce
How to win a woman's love. For me this. Say the following talisman three times with hands folded: — Se el yilo nebrakada femininum! Amor me solo! Sanktus! Amen.
~ James Joyce
There's no substitute for loyalty.
~ James Lee Burke
her mouth and the earnestness in her expression were of a kind that made both the celibate and the happily married question the wisdom of their vows.
~ James Lee Burke
If we haven't got time to pray to The Lord for help then we haven't got much time at all do we?
~ James Lincoln Collier
Then count me in," Wash said to Mal. "Whatever Zoë wants, I want." "My man." Zoë slipped an arm around her husband's waist and kissed him. "That's why I love you." "It's also why you haven't killed me all this time we've been married." "Smart of you to realize.
~ James Lovegrove
The Empire values dedication. Especially when it's unswerving.
~ James Luceno
God I am looking for the one thing I have never felt but once, and I would walk through heaven and earth to find it, if he would but let me find him, so that I could feel it; and if I were to feel it again I would never leave that feeling, or him that gave it to me. - The Dreamer
~ James McBride
The true Calvinist is someone whose whole life is devoted to the glory of God.
~ James Montgomery Boice
Never plead your merits before God. Plead mercy. It is mercy we need. We need it from first to last, and we need it every single day.
~ James Montgomery Boice
Being wholly given over to God now is the essential and best possible preparation for future service.
~ James Montgomery Boice