Quotes About Devotion

The people who love God with all their heart are those whose will is totally devoted to what is good for God.

God, I want to give You every minute of this year. I shall try to keep You in mind every moment of my waking hours. . . . I shall try to let You be the speaker and direct every word. I shall try to let You direct my acts. I shall try to learn Your language. —FRANK LAUBACH

So my first point is simply: life in Christ has to do with obedience to his teaching.

To enter the realm of play, we must give ourselves to something or someone and turn away from all else. It is both a pledge and a betrayal.

Faith Works' only tools were prayer, bible study and church attendance

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.

When it comes to passion, I'm not sure you have any choice but to follow.

Michael," she said, her voice raspy. "It's time to let go." "I can't." Tolland's eyes welled. "You're a survivor," Celia said. "You have to be. Promise me you'll find another love." "I'll never want another." Tolland meant it. "You'll have

Martyrdom is at the heart of all religion.

As anyone who read religious history could attest nothing cemented people's belief faster than a human being dying for his cause. Christ on the cross. The Kedoshim of Judaism. The Shahid of Islam. Martyrdom is at the heart of all religion . - Robert Langdon

one way to understand people is to pay attention to what they love.

True love is not feelings or flowery words; it is action. Love is as love does

But, Dad…" She hesitated. "It will mean raising me all over again. It means suffering through my childhood for a third time. No parent should be asked to do that." Sol managed a smile. "No parent would refuse that, Rachel.

Arete is simply excellence and the striving for excellence in all things," said Odysseus. "Arete simply means the act of offering all actions as a sort of sacrament to excellence, of devoting one's life to finding excellence, identifying it when it offers itself, and achieving it in your own life.

To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow.

You stay with her. I'll follow it in.

The problem with being passionately in love, I thought, is that it deprives you of too much sleep.

realized that in the end – when all else is dust – loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith – true faith – was trusting in that love.

To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow.

When there's something or someone, when there's anything that makes you happy, you don't let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart

Knowing what you know, you're more of a daughter to Paul than you can possibly imagine. You take something that isn't your own and you breathe life into it. You create it—and it becomes your creation. You are an agent to help my brother express the finest kind of love.

I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.

I waited just to see you at that kind of peace, I wanted to be beside you, I wanted you to wake up slowly or startle, or just half awaken and turn over or murmur my name. I wanted to watch you forever, or sleep beside you forever, or sleep forever while you woke and watched me, something forever anyway. I wanted to kiss you, rumple your hair, rest three fingertips on your hip bone warm and smooth, wake you that way or hush you back to sleep.