Quotes About Devotion

Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.

true love cannot extend its claims to spouses.

Porque hay una cosa que es cierta y es que la quiero.

Hasta el deseo se vuelve puro, hasta el acto más definitivamente consagrado al sexo se vuelve casi inmaculado. [...] Esa pureza es querer cada centímetro de su piel, es aspirar su olor, es recorrer su vientre, poro a poro. Es llevar el deseo hasta la cumbre

de todos modos para vos no es novedad que el mundo                   y yo                      te queremos de veras   pero yo siempre un poquito más que el mundo.

que el mundo y yo te queremos de veras pero yo siempre un poquito más que el mundo

Well, at heart I knew she'd never be a normal woman. And I didn't want her to be one, because what I loved in her were the indomitable and unpredictable aspects of her personality

Love is the only prayer I know.

In my experience, people love what they love. They just do.

I think love is an imperative. It obligates you.

That no matter what happens, loving someone to the best of your ability is the right thing to do. It's the only thing to do.

You're his blue sky. When everything else is darkness. But is he yours?

You must promise to give yourself entirely to someone or something because that's who you are. You are a genius at devoting yourself; it's what makes you happiest.

There is no explaining why you love the people who belonged to you. No explaining why you couldn't be objective about them, or indifferent to their disapproval. They are woven into your soul with millions of threads, and cutting them out would make you bleed...

Be a Mother who is committed to loving her children into standing on higher ground than the enviroment surrounding them. Mothers are endowed with a love that is unlike any other love on the face of the earth.

You still have me , I heard inside my head; his deep, soft voice. No matter what. And I have you.

As we got closer to marriage, I felt completely confident that Gordon loved me. But I also knew somehow that I would never come first with him. I knew I was going to be second in his life and that the Lord was going to be first. And that was okay. It seemed to me that if you understood the gospel and the purpose of our being here, you would want a husband who put the Lord first.

Mothers are endowed with a love that is unlike any other love on the face of the earth.

The life of a monk ought to be a continuous Lent. . . . This we can do in a fitting manner by refusing to indulge evil habits and by devoting ourselves to prayer with tears, to reading, to compunction of heart and self-denial" (71). A life of prayer, however, was not to be artificially divorced from a life of service.

If you don't hold out on God, I can promise you this: God will not hold out on you. But it's all or nothing.

Too often we pray ASAP prayers — as soon as possible. We need to start praying ALAT prayers — as long as it takes.

Jesus loved, praised, and rewarded one thing: desperation for God that superseded decorum.

The hands-down most important spiritual discipline is getting into God's Word on a daily basis. When you open the Bible, God opens His mouth.

Consecration is going all in and all out for the All in All.