Quotes About Devotion

I said, No man is worth fretting for in that way. And she said, There are men worth dying for, Lucy, and he is one of them.

The woman never lived yet who could cast a true-love out of her heart because the object of that love was unworthy of her. All

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

W]orship, if not the child, is at least the brother, of fear.

Saint-Lambert, it is all for thee The flower grows; The rose's thorns are all for me; For thee the rose.

Let us live always as we live now, and let us not abandon the names that we have given each other in our first love. … You and I must always remain young, and you shall always be beautiful to me. We must keep no count of the years.

He says to his wife, in the early years of their marriage: "Let us live always as we live now, and let us not abandon the names that we have given each other in our first love. … You and I must always remain young, and you shall always be beautiful to me. We must keep no count of the years.

Even though it consumes us in its service and overwhelms us with tragedy, even though it breaks us down with separations, let it be first. How can it matter what price we pay for love?

In the movies, when you wake up after some sort of accident, you open your eyes and see the face of a loved one hovering above you, calling out your name, an incantation of love and worry and devotion. You look for the light. They bring you back from the brink.

If a thing loves, it is infinite. ( Annotations to Swedenborg )

Every object that is loved forms the center of a paradise.

If a thing loves, it is infinite

Since all the Riches of this World May be gifts from the Devil and Earthly Kings, I should suspect that I worship'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for Worldly things.

Love seeketh not Itself to please. Nor for itself hath any care; But for another gives its ease. And builds a Heaven in Hells despair. Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to Its delight; Joys in anothers loss of ease. And builds a Hell in Heavens despite.

Praise is the practice of Art.

but you're giving a very good impression of a lovelorn fool pining for his girl.

Love is that flame which, when it blazes up, consumes everything else but the Beloved (V, 588).

and so by your love the very sun itself is revived

But love is unworldly, and nothing comes of it but love...

But love love is unworldly, and nothing comes of it but love—following and falling endlessly from her thoughts

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.

Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.

I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.