Quotes About Devotion

For we should read God's word not for what we can get out of it, not for what it will do for us, but for what it will teach us to do for our God.

Christian patriots spend more time washing feet than waving flags.

The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.

opportunism" into "fervent zeal.

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

All of her heart, a meaningless phrase, but correct and precise, too. She used her heart to love him, not her head, and not her words and not her thoughts or ideas or feelings or any other vehicle or object or device people use to deliver love or love-like things.

If I could be half the person my dog is, I would be twice the human I am.

If I could be half the person my dog is, I would be twice the human I am. from How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

You are what you love, not what loves you.

We are what we love, not what loves us.

You've been a part of me forever. Don't you know that? I breathe your name in every exhalation.

All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.

I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.

You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.

Jane, look at me," he asked, and when she did, he knew she was seeing what she needed in his eyes. "You are the only woman for me–it"s only ever been you. I told you once before, that I have never loved before you, and I will never love again. Jane," he said, forcing her face to down to his. "There is no condition on my love. No end to my desire. Don"t put them there, my love.

Matthew," she murmured, her voice breaking. "How can I save you?

How will I accomplish such a thing?" he said, and her lashes fluttered closed as his bottom lip scraped gently up the curve of her chin. "I'll be everywhere you are. Your very shadow.

Beth…Beth… He whispered her name in his mind, unwilling to break the spell that surrounded them with any sound. He did not want to hear his voice; the only sounds he desired were the soft inhalations of Beth's breath, her sighs of pleasure, the brush of his body and hers as he loved her. She was beautiful, so perfect. He wanted to sit back and feast his eyes on her, sear her into his memory, lying like this, waiting for him.

I'm going to cut you," Georgiana murmured. "I'm going to mark that face of yours and show him what I'm capable of." "He'd still love me," Elizabeth whispered. "It's a concept you could never understand, Georgiana.

I won't say it's going to be easy for me, Madeline. I've lived too long in darkness and shadows, but if you're willing to stick by me, to give me a chance, I'll give you whatever you wish." "My wish has already come true," she said, smiling into his upturned face. "It was you, after all." -Blaine and Madeline

I love your taste, my shundori," he murmured, and she felt his body tense beneath her. "I can't get enough of it. I can't get enough of you.