Quotes About Devotion

Love was a choice and we made it everyday.

Truthfully, he would break every rule he had, every promise he'd ever made, and go to all the trouble in the world for this girl and she had no idea. None.

She was saying words she didn't totally believe yet. And maybe I was, too. But I wanted them to be true. For the first and only time in my life, I wanted to belong to someone and have that person belong to me.

It wasn't sex. It wasn't just sex. It was her. I wanted her and I wanted the honor of being wanted by her. And fuck if I hadn't made my whole life about getting what I wanted.

I want to be falling in love with you for the rest of my life.

Love. Forgiveness. Commitment. Faith. Hope. They are simple things with yes or no answers. You love or you don't. You believe or you don't. You forgive or you don't.

It's not as important as you are. Nothing is. When I said my mom would like you that first night we met, it's because I knew you were going to be the most important thing in my life. You are the sun, Lexie. And I'm just trying to stay in your orbit.

She said 'Ethan, you could easily marry a woman who fits into your life. But you need to marry a woman who is your life.

I kept this place for you inside me for four years. Every day. Every night.

That's the answer, Rosa. That you will always be the answer about whether or not I want you. I will always want you. I will die wanting you.

What do you want?" she asked, like she honestly didn't know. "What I've always wanted. What I'll want for the rest of my life," I told her with the same intensity I'd used to say my vows four years ago. "You.

Out of the blood of my mother's heart, through the tears she poured out day and night, a sacrifice was offered up to you in my behalf, and you dealt with me in a wondrous way.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear... fear and surprise... Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency... and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope... Our four... no... Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry... are such elements as fear, surprise... I'll come in again.

The true meaning of the 'samurai' is one who serves and adheres to the power of love.

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

The romantic idealization of love and the beloved had no source in Roman or Germanic tradition. It came apparently from Islamic Spain, where women had a good deal of freedom and were often poets in their own right. It was there that a mystical doctrine of love as a holy passion, pure and uplifting, developed. Arabic literature is full of parted and thwarted lovers, totally faithful and devoted. Its poetry is mostly love poetry, foreshadowing the themes and styles of the French troubadours.

A person doesn't have to be here to love you.

If this were not love, then Landon was ignorant indeed. And if love were a folly, then he was content to be a fool.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it.

Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts; then it is real and pure.

Holiness is doing Godís will with a smile.

Somebody loves us, too - God Himself. We have been created to love and to be loved.