Quotes About Devotion

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

And until that day comes every true man's place/ is to reject all else and be with the lowest,/ the poorest - in the bottom of that deepest of wells/ in which alone is truth; in which is truth only - truth that should shine like the sun,/ with a monopoly of movement, and a sound like talking to God.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the House of the Lord than mingle with the top brass in the tents of the wicked.

C'è sempre un ingenuo... pronto a sacrificarsi per una donna...

I have at last got busy about Mummy's grave. . . . . The inscription I should like is: EDITH MARY TOLKIEN 1889-1971 Lúthien :brief and jejune, except for Lúthien , which says for me more than a multitude of words: for she was (and knew she was) my Lúthien. … I never called Edith Lúthien – but she was the source of the story that in time became the chief part of the Silmarillion . Letter 340 From a letter to Christopher Tolkien

I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.

Those who worship God for the hope of gaining, theyre not real worshippers, theyre merchants. Those who worship God out of fear (of punishment), theyre slaves. And those who worship God to be grateful towards their creator, they are the free people, and their worship is a real one.

People are slaves to the world, and as long as they live favorable and comfortable lives, they are loyal to religious principles. However, at hard times, the times of trials, true religious people are scarce.

Her only defence for shifting religious loyalties was that she was very spiritually inclined.

Without attention, the human sense of wonder and the holy will stir occasionally, but to become a steady flame it must be tended.

One should try to be honest with oneself almost as a daily devotion.

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love." —Albert Camus

Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee

All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

He moved toward her like a pilgrim on holy ground.

Within a year, I'd met Coco, and that quickly turned into an amazing relationship—now a beautiful marriage, going strong more than twenty years.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

Quando lui respirava, lei si affrettava a procurargli l'aria.

A Better Beard that Yours. 'All true devotees wear a beard,' said the Imam to his audience. 'Show me a thick and lustrous beard and I'll show you a true believer!' 'My goat has a beard far bushier and longer than yours,' replied Nasrudin. 'Does that mean he is a better Muslim than you?

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia

Saying of the Prophet THE PEOPLE It is the people who are God's family. (Muhammad the Prophet)

Service I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia el-Adawia.

Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it.