Quotes About Devotion

She had several times been in love with fortunes or careers, but only once with a man.

It's rather clever of her to have made a specialty of devoting herself to dull people—the field is such a large one, and she has it practically to herself.

Staunch and faithful lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love that one ever gives them.

But then you come; and you're so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly trusting to it to come true.

Cuando estamos separados y deseo verte, cada pensamiento se consume en una gran llama... entonces llegad, y eres tanto más de lo que recordaba, y lo que quiero de ti tanto más que una hora o dos de vez en cuando, con desiertos de sedienta espera en los intervalos, que soy perfectamente capaz de quedarme quieto a tu lado, como ahora, simplemente confiando con tranquilidad en que todo llegará a ser real.

THE CHARACTERISTIC passion of Burke's life was his love of order.

Leaves, lines, and rhymes, seek her to please alone, Whom if ye please, I care for other none.

She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind. She was a Martha. There were Marys and Marthas, but Marys got all the limelight because of being Christ's handmaiden, but Marthas were far more sincere.

remember love is all bull, the only true love is that between mother and child.

If our general wishes to lead us to the banks of the Tyber, we are prepared to trace out his camp. Whatsoever walls he has determined to level with the ground, our hands are ready to work the engines: nor shall we hesitate, should the name of the devoted city be Rome itself.

He wrote it all down Zealously.

When I am in his company, I am so happy. I just want to be with him. That's all I know." She shrugged. "I want to be with him, all the time.

Gospodi Pomily: Lord have mercy.

All she remembered was that Caligula had planned to torture his wife to find out why he was so devoted to her. What was David's excuse, she wondered.

God says that he will give you grace to handle the disappointments that lie ahead; your task is to live for him in the present. At first, this feels reckless, as if you were enjoying the thrill of a speeding car when you are courting devastation at the next turn. But it isn't reckless to trust in God rather than yourself.

The basic idea is to focus on the matchless worth of the Lord God and then get connected to him.

The thing or person you trust in is actually the object of your worship. Look

Sometimes we would prefer to die for Jesus than to live for Him.

The purpose of humanity is to be brought near to God as a holy people.

May your love remain an eternal flame.

And they shared, as she put it, an impractical love.

She cannot stay out of duty. The things one does, one should do out of love.

You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

He extols the efficacy of the sign of the cross in chasing him, and dissipating his illusions, and lays down rules for the discernment of spirits, the first of which is, that the devn leaves on the soul impressions of fear, sadness, confusion, and disturbance.