Quotes About Devotion

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

The People crossed themselves. They knew a Jesus reference when they heard it.

O louva-a-deus é como Deus pretendia a espécie, uma haste de louvor à sua Glória. Uma planta com senso bastante para sentir dor e devoção e nada mais.

One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.

What is love, in the beginning, if not this mapping out, this settling into the other's undulations?

Love is one of society's many socially accepted forms of madness.

When an abusive man feels the powerful stirring inside that other people call love, he is probably largely feeling: The desire to have you devote your life to keeping him happy with no outside interference The desire to have sexual access The desire to impress others by having you be his partner The desire to possess and control you

Whoso hearkens not to God's voice, is an idolator, though he perform the highest and most heavy service of God.

Improving ourselves is not the sacrifice the Lord calls us to.

God isn't interested in helping us with our self-improvement program; he is interested in our holiness.

Eleven years—that is long. Long enough so that the roots of love, if the tree is robust, plunge so deep that they will subsist always, even dried up.

Então é isso: cada dia eu gosto de você de um jeito. E se a gente junta tudo que é jeito vê que gosta bem grande, vê que é amor.

Só Jesus compreende e perdoa, só Ele que já curtiu como nós, Jesus, Jesus, como eu te amo! Vou pôr um disco em sua homenagem, espera, ofereço música assim como Abel oferecia ovelhas, é lógico que ovelha é muito mais importante mas Jesus sabe que tenho horror de sangue, minhas oferendas só podem ser musicais. Jimi Hendrix?

Be ye as steadfast to me as I'll be to you, and we two will go to the world's end; and yet we cannot, for the world is round, and seeing 'tis round, let's dance in the circle; come, turn about.

The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.

Brevity is the soul of the prayer-meeting.

The Bible is the casket which contains the image of my Master.

No man will find God unless he seeks after God for God's own sake, loves him for himself, and not for the gifts which he may bestow.

Solemn faces do not make sacred hours.

There is not that readiness and zeal in the work of the church, which I would wish to see. There are many fruitless branches on the tree, Mrs. Laicus, many members of my church who do nothing really to promote its interests. They are not to be found in the Sabbath School; they cannot be induced to participate actively in tract distribution; and they are even not to be depended on in the devotional week-day meetings of the church.

I love you Aurora Eden you are so unpredictably predictable!

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

I'm no good at this kind of stuff, but you are suddenly the most important thing in my life

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.