Quotes About Devotion

I would love you as a bird loves flight, as meat loves salt, as a dog loves chase, as water finds its own level. Or I would not love you at all.

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

I have somewhere read of a wise bishop who in a visit to his diocese found an old woman whose only prayer consisted in the single interjection Oh!- Good mother said he to her, continue to pray in this manner; your prayer is better than ours. This better prayer is mine also.

Wees minnaar van een ziel.

On pouvait la voir sans l'aimer, mais non pas la posséder sans l'adorer.

Non, il n'y a point de jouissances pareilles à celles que peut donner une honnête femme qu'on aime ; tout est faveur auprès d'elle.

down the stone steps to the windswept beach, her raven tresses flowing out behind her. She scanned the empty sands, and when she saw no sign of Blaine, a great cry of anguish escaped her lips. She could not live without him! She would sooner die!

I think if you have something that you really love to do, you're already ahead of ninety-nine percent of the people out there in the world.

You know, if it's humanly possible, I'll get it for you. And if it ain't humanly possible, I'l die trying.

You know, if it's humanly possible, I'll get it for you. And if it ain't humanly possible, I'll die trying.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

Commitment is an act, not a word

The thing is, work is the thing I love the most.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

Whatever work we do, our mind should be centered on God.

Persistence and love of one's work is the key.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.

Fitting together is something you work at. It's something you make happen—because you love each other.

I believe that you've got to love your work so much that it is all you want to do.

The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother.

Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.

Ultimately you are doing what you do for one of two reasons: to serve oneself or to serve God. There is enough time in every day to do God's work...in God's way.