Quotes About Devotion

to stop loving and, at the same time, fall in love means to love twice as strong than before.

All over?' he repeated. 'If I were not myself, but the handsomest, cleverest, and best man in the world, and were free, I would this moment ask on my knees for your hand and your love!

I remember her praying!' he thought. 'You could tell she was putting all her soul into her prayers. Yes, that's the kind of faith that moves mountains. I'm sure her prayers will be answered.

To love life is to love God.

He had drawn up a carved, velvet chair and was resting his left hand on its back, holding a candle, and using his right hand to cross himself, rolling his eyes upwards every time he put his fingers to his forehead. His face conveyed a gentle piety and resignation to the will of God. 'If you cannot understand feelings like these,' his face seemed to say, 'that's too bad for you.

Anything loved so much, with a daily effort, grows.

self-abnegation

Lo único que importa es la fe, la confianza ardiente, la ausencia total de egoísmo e individualismo, la tensión de todo el ser hacia el servicio, por ingrato que sea, en cualquier lugar, de todos modos, una causa que va más allá del hombre, preguntándole todo, prometiéndole nada

It is never long before identity is reduced to loyalty.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in life take my hand. I'm your man.

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.

there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

I'm your man.

Let him lie among the strings until there is no hope for his daily strategy, until he cries, I am yours, I am your creature.

It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.

A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.

If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease?

Preacher, keep your knees on the ground & your eyes on the throne.

there is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.

Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?

Who or what takes priority over God in our lives?