Quotes About Devotion

Le sacrilège, la seule manière que les impies ont encore d'être dévots.

Et puis tout d'un coup, je te vois et ça m'arrive que je t'aime, d'une façon que c'est pas possible de le dire...Tout le temps, je te vois, tout le temps je te parle...Le sommeil, ça me l'a tué, quand je mange, ça n'a plus de goût.Si tu ne me veux pas, ou je meurs ou je deviens fou.

Ah, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring into life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May.

I have built, deep in my heart, a chapel filled with you.

For the possession of what we love is an even greater joy than love itself.

from the moment when they were in love, it was superfluous to obey them, since they would only be more in love later on.

No es resultado de la casualidad que los hombres intelectuales y sensibles se entreguen siempre a mujeres insensibles e inferiores y les tengan, sin embargo, apego, si la prueba de que no son amados no los cura en absoluto de sacrificarlo todo por conservar junto a ellos a una mujer así

Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.

And continued to regard all their absurdities in the most rosy light through the admiring eyes of love.

When we are in love, our love is too big a thing for us to be able altogether to contain it within ourselves.

Comme nous ne sommes tous, nous les vivants, que des morts qui ne sont pas encore entrés en fonctions, toutes ces politesses, toutes ces salutations dans le vestibule que nous appelons déférence, gratitude, dévouement et où nous mêlons tant de mensonges, sont stériles et fatigantes.

How can I live without thee, how forgoe Thy sweet Converse and Love so dearly joyn'd, To live again in these wilde Woods forlorn? Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

Henceforth an individual solace dear; Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim My other half: with that thy gentle hand Seisd mine, I yielded, and from that time see How beauty is excelld by manly grace.

witness- Heaven, What love sincere and reverence in my heart I bear thee

Hee boulder now, uncall'd before her stood;   But as in gaze admiring: Oft he bowd   His turret Crest, and sleek enamel'd Neck,   Fawning, and lick'd the ground whereon she trod.

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

Freely we serve, because we freely love, as in our will to love or not; in this we stand or fall

And when they are fairly within the mighty walls of the temple and hear the psalms of the falls, they will forget themselves and become devout. Blessed, indeed, should be every pilgrim in these holy mountains!

If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.

Let us chide our cold unfeeling hearts and pray for a coal of fire from the heavenly altar to send us home in a flame of love to him who has thus loved us.

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. RUMI IN

Rodin's art 'was not based upon any great idea, but upon the conscientious realisation of something small, upon something capable of achievement, upon a matter of technique. There was no arrogance in him, he devoted himself to this insignificant and difficult aspect of beauty which he could survey, command and judge. The other, the greater beauty must come when all was ready for it as animals come to drink when night holds sway and the forest is free of strangers.

Prayer, perhaps more than any other activity, is the concrete expression of the fact that we are invited into a relationship with God.

I did, however, remember a line from a book by Dallas Willard that I had read just recently: "At the beginning of each morning I commit my day to the Lord's care. . . . I have already placed God in charge. I no longer have to manage the weather, airplanes, and other people.