Quotes About Devotion

On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

Pray and get ready for it. When you are ready, get by yourself, pray for guidance, and finally give the entire matter and everything connected to it to God. Tell God you are giving this person and the entire business to Him, complete in every detail.

We seldom say we love someone with all of our head, send brain-shaped candy on Valentine's Day, or tell our lover that we want to give our brain to them.

The masses are like an animal that obeys its instincts. They do not reach conclusions by reasoning . . . The masses have a simple system of thinking and feeling, and anything that cannot be fitted into it disturbs them [. . .] what you tell the people in the mass, in a receptive state of fanatic devotion, will remain like words received under a hypnotic influence, ineradicable, and impervious to every reasonable explanation.

I've heard that the regular officers hate him, but the Stormtrooper Corps almost worships him.

You're the guy that'll be sneaking out of your bedroom at three o'clock in the morning to look at your bike.

Frequent Mass attendance, then, is an effective weapon of our warfare.

St. Patrick of Ireland Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ below me, Christ above me, Christ at my right, Christ at my left, Christ in lying down, Christ in sitting, Christ in rising up, Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks to me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me. — St. Patrick of Ireland

You angels of Jesus and his saints, pray for me, that our loving Savior may give me new grace and new love for him, to devote this year and my whole life, purely and solely, to the service of his glory and love. Amen.

My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love you. I ask pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love you.

I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.

God] is the name for that which concerns man ultimately. This does not mean that first there is a being called God and then the demand that man should be ultimately concerned about him. It means that whatever concerns a man ultimately becomes god for him, and, conversely, it means that a man can be concerned ultimately only about that which is god for him.

Without faith there is no hope and no love. Faith comes before hope, and before love.

Faith comes before hope, and hope before love.

Estou cada vez mais convencido de que o que dá ao ministério as suas motivações, perseverança, humildade, alegria, amabilidade, paixão e graça é a vida devocional daquele que está exercendo o ministério.

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.

Car j'ai vécu de vous attendre, Et mon coeur n'était que vos pas.

Hide your god, men must hide their true gods with great care.

Le Poète, l'amour du Beau, voilà sa foi, L'Azur, son étendard, et l'Idéal, sa loi !

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.

One of the lesser-known contributions of the great Harriet Tubman was the devotion of her life after the war to a similar project. The woman who personally led three hundred slaves to freedom, who was a spy and "general" for the Union, spent her final years trying to establish the John Brown Home for the Aged. When the government refused to give her a full veteran's pension, the former general sold fruit and had a biography published to raise money for the institution.

But love is love. It makes you do terribly stupid things.

I'd like it if you could love me for a little while at least.