Quotes About Devotion

Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing her? Or what it's like to touch someone?

People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more." ? Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

Aku menyayangimu, kataku, suaraku terdengar hampa karena tangis. Aku sangat menyayangimu hingga aku tak tahu aku akan hidup dengan siapa jika kau tidak ada. Dan bahkan jika usahaku menghabiskan waktu seluruh hidupku, aku akan membuatmu paham kenapa hidupmu membuat perbedaan.

Give yourself-not just your time-to prayer. Remember that prayer is not an appendix to your life and your work, it is your life your real, spiritual life-and your work. Prayer is the thermometer of your soul.

So how does one prepare his or her heart for martyrdom?

Love is not a thought; it is an action verb. It is not a thing, but an expression. You can't love in a vacuum; love demands an object. It demands a relationship. "N

If I spend every moment, for the rest of my days, thanking God for all his goodness to us, that would still not be enough.

ella irá contigo y permanecerá a tu lado hasta que vuelvas.

Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and pleasure, are the way to be useful and consequently happy.

We need to be free if we are to love.

Play with your wife. Laugh with your husband. Go out together. Stand together in prayer. Yearn to be each other's best friend in marriage.

All proven loves are products of friendship.

Come together with your spouse, and become each other's best friend forever.

I would have made her a part of me. If I could, I would have had a notch cut in my already aging side and a slip of her, my young rose, inserted there and lashed to me with twine.

The sentence is the great invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn't ask for anything better. It's as near to godliness as I can get.

Together they will spend a happy hour seated side by side..., while Ivy's tender hand guides Duffy's as he traces out laboriously, in pencil, over and over until he has them off pat, the magic letters of his name. More than the wedding itself, that little ceremony there under the lamp, all silent save for the soft scratching of graphite on paper, will mark the true beginning of their life together.

Love, I have always found, is most intense when its object is unworthy of it.

There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.

Do we honor them for the extras? No, a thousand times no. We [honor them] because God gave us the charge to honor all.

They shall be My people, and I will be their God; then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me." (Jeremiah 32:38–40)

Absolutely no man, woman, child, or devil can ever get you out of the will of God! No one but God holds your destiny.

A slave is one who has to serve, while a servant is one who lives to serve.

Lord, I want to know You the best a man can know You. I want to please You the best a man can please You. Show me Your heart, reveal to me what is important to You, and show me what is not so important to You. Teach me Your ways and may my life bring joy to You . . .

He only comes in as our complete and total King, with no person, thing, or activity vying for His place in our hearts. He must be Lord, which means supreme master and owner—meaning we don't own our lives any longer.