Quotes About Devotion

A husband and wife should complete each other, support each other. God gave Adam a helpmate, not an object to be put on a shelf or worshiped from afar.

Let us perform all our actions with the thought that God dwells in us. We shall thus be His temples, and He Himself will be our God, dwelling in us (cf. Eph. 15: 3).

The nearer a soul is to God, the more it deserves our esteem; the closer the ties that bit it to us, the more sensible is our love for it, and the more whole-hearted should be the devotion we show in all that concerns family, country, vocation, and friendship. Thus, instead of destroying patriotism, charity exalts it, as we see in the case of St. Joan of Arc or St. Louis.

The heathen in his blindnessBows down to wood and stone.

Perhaps human self hood in it's collective form is unable to imagine any higher value than the common value of it's devotion. Hence, the redemptive value of dissident individuals, the prophet, the critic, even the rebel, in a free community.

If a minister wants to be a man among men he need only to stop creating devotion to abstract ideals which every one accepts in theory and denies in practice, and to agonize about their validity and practicability in the social issues which he and others face in our present civilization.

and I'm trying so hard, with all my heart and mind, to make your life as good as you've made mine...

alayhi çalatu Rabbil-Arshi dawman, « que sur lui la prière du Seigneur du Trône soit perpétuellement » !

I loved you then. I loved you no matter where you came from. No—scratch that." His voice floated up to her. "I loved you because you came from wherever it was. It must have been a magic place, to produce you.

I'd like to look like a wife with two kids who's been married for ten years and been in love every single day of it. - from Boo

Rituals are routines that force us to move faithfully even when we no longer feel like being faithful. Until our heart has the time to arouse itself and find its way back to those we love, rituals make us show up for duty.

The Spiritual Disciplines in and of themselves have no merit whatsoever. They possess no righteousness, contain no rectitude. Their purpose—their only purpose—is to place us before God. After that they have come to the end of their usefulness. But it is enough.

Even the fact that to be for God, leads to the maximum blessedness, is secondary to the fact that we are for Him.

Loyalty is a very fine thing, but it shouldn't be allowed to get the bit between its teeth. I

What separates man from divine Reality is the slightest of barriers: God is infinitely close to man, but man is infinitely far from God. The barrier is, for man, a mountain; he stands before a mountain which he must remove with his own hands. He digs away the earth, but in vain; the mountain remains. Man, however, goes on digging, in the name of God. And the mountain vanishes. It was never there.

Love will do anything for you, but you have to unite with it, through love, to realize its power in your life.

Krishna said that whatever he is offered he accepts with joy.

A man in love does not notice the cut of the dress, but rather a face of a beloved.

The Society of Saint George," she said. "A devotional society of the men of this town. It is an honour to be invited to join.

medal. A religious medal to some kind of saint.

The best among all is one who possesses God's love no matter what religion he belongs to.

Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won't also cost you yours.

If I loved my Master like my dog loves his, I would be more saintly than John the Divine…more radical than John the Baptizer…more deeply devoted than St. John of the Cross. My

had liked it so well that she had made