Quotes About Devotion

Because if you love someone, you have to be brave and tell them. Don't let them go. And if you say no I'm going to spend the rest of my life trying to convince you I'm right. I promise. I won't leave you alone. Because it's not about who's whats or wheres or anything. We should be together. The other stuff doesn't matter. That's all.

I like the idea of being with someone forever, being married to them.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

I admire and look up to heroes, but indolent men make the best lovers.

Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.'" (Ecclesiastes 9:10)

the wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor?...You should take especial notice of how a person speaks, not of other things, but of God.

May God even yet deliver us from the sin of loyalty!

Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.

If you love something/Set it free/If it loves you/It will come back to you/ If it doesn't--hunt it down and kill it.

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.

It's a fish eagle, Jock.' 'It sounds so sad.' He nodded. 'It is. They mate for life and if their mate dies they never take another. That's the sound they make when they've lost their mate.' It was something I will never forget. Even now, years later, when I watch the sun go down, I still hear it, an echo from my past.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

To be a servant of Allah means leading one's whole life for the purpose of gaining Allah's pleasure and approval.

She put all of her weight against the sill of the balcony, her lovesick heart ready and willing to join the man she loved.  She closed her eyes and pushed herself forward.  From three stories high, she plummeted to the earth.  Before hitting the ground, she swore she saw him, racing down from the heavens and lifting her up towards God's domain where lovers never ceased to rule.

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

For your love given ask no return, none. To love you must love to love.

When someone disowns an idea or even a person, they give up faith in or love for something or someone they used to call their own.

The beauty of the God girl is that she isn't about "me" all the time.

Love is like the fire; its glow is devotion, its flame is wisdom, its smoke is attachment, and its ashes detachment. Flame rises from glow, so it is with wisdom, which rises from devotion. When love's fire produces its flame it illuminates the devotee's path in life like a torch, and all darkness vanishes.

The sighing of the devotee clears a path for him into the world unseen, and his tears wash away the sins of ages. All revelation follows the ecstasy; all knowledge that a book can never contain, that a language can never express, nor a teacher teach, comes to him of itself.

One need not fall in love; one must rise through love.

When the soul is attuned to God, every action becomes music.