Quotes About Devotion

I nostri animali hanno vite molto brevi da trascorrere con noi, e ne trascorrono la maggior parte ad aspettare che torniamo a casa ogni giorno.

A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water log stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care if your rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary?

Life and love with the worlds worst dog

A un perro no le importa si uno es rico o pobre, educado o iletrado, listo o aburrido. Si uno le brinda el corazón, él responderá brindando el suyo

It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal!

I am settled," she said, "in the ancient Roman Catholic religion, and mind to spend my blood in defense of it.

by and in the blood of Christ at the foot of whose crucifix she would willingly shed her blood.

she finished, kissing the crucifix and making the sign of the cross in the Catholic way.

She laid her crucifix and prayer book on her stool

As Mary knelt, she recited in Latin the psalm In te Domino confido, "In thee, O Lord, have I put my trust.

Mary had done her duty in marrying Francis and had showered him with signs of affection. But she had never loved him.

To obtain the gift of holiness is the work of a life.

If you ask me what you are to do in order to be perfect, I say, first—Do not lie in bed beyond the due time of rising; give your first thoughts to God; make a good visit to the Blessed Sacrament; say the Angelus devoutly; eat and drink to God's glory; say the Rosary well; be recollected; keep out bad thoughts; make your evening meditation well; examine yourself daily; go to bed in good time, and you are already perfect.

All I care about in this goddamn life are me, my drums, and you.

I know but one word ...Obedience! I know how a soldier will obey an order...even to death. I cannot expect to look JESUS CHRIST in the face and obey HIM less than a soldier his commander.

patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda—and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.

Ad majorem Dei gloriam—to the greater glory of God.

Don't ever die, Juan Diego had written to Brother Pepe from Iowa City. What Juan Diego meant was that HE would die if he lost Pepe.

They resembled an elderly, long-married couple—devoted to each other without conversation.

you've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows.

Tobit—the one that goes, "That she and I may grow old together.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life that you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour...