Quotes About Devotion

Man must have fires in his life: Fire of love; fire of work; fire of doing kindness... Without fires, man is just a cold rock!

Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!

The cleverest amongst you is he who is the loyal apostle of life, the true disciple of existence, the devout follower of love.

We love our country, not because it is perfect in everything, but it manages to touch our heart despite all its imperfections in everything!

What love can achieve, nothing else can achieve!

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

We should be able to recognize true and perfect love by whether or not someone has great hope and confidence in God, for there is nothing that testifies more clearly to perfect love than trust.

Now some people are of the opinion that they are altogether holy and perfect, and go around the place with big deeds and big words, and yet they strive for and desire so many things, they wish to possess so much and are so concerned both with themselves and with this thing and that. They assert that they are seeking great piety and devotion, and yet they cannot accept a single word of reproval without answering back. Be certain of this: they are far from God and are not in union with him.

But many people want to look upon God with the eyes with which they look upon a cow; they want to love God the way they love a cow that you love because it gives you milk and cheese. This is how people behave who want to love God because of external wealth or inner comfort; but they do not love God properly: rather, they love their self interest.

For however devoted you are to him, you may be sure that he is immeasurably more devoted to you and has incomparably more faith in you. For he is faithfulness itself – of this we can be certain as those who love him are certain.

Christ said: 'Whoever leaves anything for my sake will receive again a hundredfold in return' (Matt 19:29).

Whoever wants to receive the body of our Lord does not need to scrutinize what they are feeling at the time or how great their piety or devotion is, but rather they should note the state of their will and attitude of mind. You should not place too much weight on your feelings but emphasize rather the object of your love and striving.

Where I will nothing for myself, there wills instead my God.

And so in my view the most important thing of all is that we should give ourselves up entirely to God whenever he allows anything to befall us, whether insult, tribulation or any other kind of suffering, accepting it with joy and gratitude and allowing God to guide us all the more rather than seeking these things out ourselves.

You should give your all to God, and then worry no more about what he may do with what is his.

A perfect and true will can only exist when we have been entirely taken up into God's will and no longer have our own will; whoever does this the more, the more and the more truly they are rooted in God. Indeed, a single Ave Maria spoken in this spirit, when we have stripped ourselves of ourselves, is worth more than the repetition of a thousand psalters without it. In fact, a single step would be better with it than to cross the sea without it.

My prayer life IS my life.

I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

Everyone should have at least one magnificent obsession. It's a life jacket when the ship goes down

He looked into my eyes. "Sara, I wasn't kidding around. You still have my heart. I don't want it back.

I am that somebody who aches to be near you when I am not. I am that somebody who can't stop thinking about you.

Do you love me?' he asked instead. 'Because if you don't, I'd wait until you did. I'd wait weeks and months and years.

But she stepped forward and placed a finger to his lips and there it was before him. The greatest prayer to the gods he could muster with a heart so broken. Don't let me outlive this woman. Don't let me exist one moment without her.

I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.