Quotes About Devotion

when Sierra Russell was into a book, she was totally into it. She practically crawled between the covers to live with the characters.

Qui Servum Magnum - He Who Serves Greatest.

Emulating God's justice is, according to the Biblical prophets, the evidence of what it means to know God. True knowledge of God entails both an appreciation of God's own unswerving devotion to justice and a commitment to live one's personal life in conformity to God's justice [see Hosea 4:1-2, 5:3, 6:6; Jeremiah 2:8; 4:22; 9:2-6, 24, 22:16; Isaiah 58:2. Titus 1:16; 1 John 4:8]

You move on, processing lessons and getting on with your life, and you even manage to avoid breaking hearts, most times. But I'm me, and I'm not one of those guys, and I refuse to be. You love me, but I'm in love with you, and I have been for a while. If you want to get with me, if you real y, real y want to be mine and for me to be yours, you're going to have to prove it.

You are both the most caring, giving people I know. You share, you love, you devote yourselves to each other and me. You're unselfish and generous with your souls. That is why she loved you, why I love you. So, while we miss her every day, please console yourselves with knowing you were lights in her life.

It is important for Christians to spend time praying with or in the spirit—that is, praying in tongues. The Bible says, "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God" (Romans 8:14).

They finally said to the Master, "Teach us to pray.

from the 680s onwards references to a cult of religious images; such images had long existed too, but from now on they were regarded by many in a new way, as windows into the holy presence of the saint (or of Christ) depicted in them.

Nina," Walter said as she handed him one of the warm boxes. "You are my angel.

Ich kann, ich kann nicht anders. Ich liebe Sie, liebes Fräulein von Bernburg! Ich liebe Sie, so, so sehr wie meine Mutter – ja und noch viel, viel mehr! Wenn ich Ihre Hände sehe, zieht es mich hin, sie zu fühlen. Ihre Stimme, wenn Sie rufen, packt mich, reißt mich – ich kann nichts dafür, ich liebe, liebe Sie!«

Daddy, I think I'm going to marry this man. His heart's big enough for me.

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

If we want to go deeper in our experience of God's grace this is an ocean of love for us to enjoy. God does not mean for the bride of his Son to only feel loved with general, world-embracing love. He means for her to feel ravished with the specificity of his affection that he set on her before the world existed.

The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.

Beauty has the more ardent, but worth the more discriminating lovers.

Latria (adoration) is the worship and homage that is rightly given only to God. Dulia (veneration, devotion), by contrast, is the recognition and honor rightly evoked by excellence observed in created persons.

You shared it all, and the other person took you in. Your partner was your shelter when you needed that, was your peace when that was paramount, was in your corner no matter how unwinnable the fight. This was what love was about. And love was exactly what Owen Marston realized he felt for his wife.

Pushing the hair back from my face and tracing the line of my jaw with his finger, he says, "With you I'd be happy anywhere.

I did not love him the way I loved Dutchy: beyond reason. Maybe you only get one of those in a lifetime.

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

Because I want every breath you take to be empty unless you're close enough to smell me. Every word you speak to be unimportant unless it's to me. Every sound you hear empty unless it's my voice. I want you to remember that whatever pleasure you have from now on, you'll have it from me. ~Rurik Wilder~

I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in my bed. That's what I want today. That's what I'll want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness.

Logic is overrated and superfluous when it comes to love.

Holding her tight against him, he said, "I am the blood in your veins, the marrow in your bones. You'll never go anywhere without knowing I'm inside you, supporting you, keeping you alive. I am a part of you. You are a part of me. We are forever.