Quotes About Devotion

God does not demand that you and I have blind faith, but abandoned faith, a faith that trusts Him fully.

Confidence in God's character enables us to throw ourselves with complete abandon into His care.

Aldous Huxley, a British novelist born in the late 1800s, said, "The Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.

6. 2 Corinthians 5:15—"No longer live for themselves." "And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

The best way to develop a grateful heart is to learn how to walk in step with God.

We need to come to God humbly. We are not his master he is our master.

Proverbs 3:5 says that if we trust in the Lord with all our heart and lean not on our own understanding, and in all our ways ac–Shepherd_ knowledge him, he will direct our paths.

Sometimes I forget how critical God is to every single day of my life.

Reading wasn't my religion – it was my oxygen.

Marriages last because the people in them want to be married

I love you. Didn't you know that? I want to love you the way I wasn't able to before. Without holding back. Without either of us holding back.

I'm going to go," he said. "All right." He didn't move. Then: "I don't want to." "Do it anyway." He chuckled. "You're a hard woman, Faith Devlin." "Hardy." "I didn't know him. He isn't real to me. Did you love him?" "Yes." But not the way I love you. Never like that.

If you would win a woman's love, give her each day a gift. If you would keep her love, give her each day two gifts. Kwani

Love, like Beauty, is suppose to take you somewhere. It has the possibility (the promise?) of taking you closer to yourself, closer to God, closer to life, to Spirit, to Mystery. No matter what you are loving.

The only thing that matters in the end is what loves you back.

and suddenly I love you beyond all measure is not just words but a heart, a soul bursting open, a stripping raw of all pretense. It is Sully, it is Gabriel, it is his tears on my face, his body in mine, our minds seamless. It is hopes and dreams and failures. It is apologies and a prayer for redemption. It is heaven and damnation. All that I am is yours pales beside it. It is everything. It is love.

Chasidah. Angel. I love you beyond all measure. That is the only real truth.

Lionel Richie

I'll be that fool for you, I'm sure

Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison. "Yes, we're all alike," I said. "We cover for you, we lie for you, we take the heat for you. We clean up your messes and mollify our parents for you. We never fail to come across with undying adoration, whether or not you deserve it, and we can't take our lives as seriously as yours. We snuffle up the crumbs from your table on the rare occasions you notice we're alive.

A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship,it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth,which carries on being carelessly true without any help.By contrast, my lie needed as much as I needed it, and so demanded the constancy of wedlock : Till death do us part.

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

Bowing his head

Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard.