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Quotes About Devotion

you may whisper a word or two to God on my behalf at Matins and Lauds, if you'll be so kind. If he turns a deaf ear to you, small use the rest of us wearing out our knee-bones.
~ Ellis Peters
The secret to a fulfilling marriage is simple: make the connection work.
~ Alfred Ells
there was a deep emotional attachment involved.
~ Alfred Lansing
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force,Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
And o'er the hills and far awayBeyond their utmost purple rim,Beyond the night, across the day,Through all the world she followed him.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The great world's altar-stairs,That slope through darkness up to God.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love is and was my lord and king.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Cophetua sware a royal oath;"This beggar maid shall be my queen!"
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
One kiss, my bonny sweetheart; I'm after a prize tonight, But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light. Yet if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day, Then look for me by moonlight, Watch for me by moonlight, I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.
~ Alfred Noyes
I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.
~ Alfred Noyes
When I make a picture, I make love.
~ Alfred Stieglitz
Love is known only by feeling it," she said, her voice deepening a little. "Behind the form you feel the person loved. The process is an evocation, pure and simple. An arduous ceremonial, involving worship and devotional preparation, is the means. It is a difficult ritual—the only one acknowledged by the world as still effectual. Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; Love me no more, but love my love of thee.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
There will no man do for your sake, I think,What I would have done for the least word said.I had wrung life dry for your lips to drink,Broken it up for your daily bread.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Ask nothing more of me sweet; All I can give you I give; Heart of my heart were it more, More would be laid at your feet..
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
The person who obeys the unique God, will not fear the anger of the creatures of God.
~ al-Hadi, Ali
Anyone who loves us Ahlul Bayt must be ready to face a life of austerity.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
Recommended prayers cannot attain the pleasures of God for you when obligatory prayers are left unattended.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
The best form of devotion to the service of God is not to make a show of it.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'
~ Ali Larter
It isn't that kind of relationship," Elisabeth says to a lover. "It isn't even the least physical. It never has been. But it's love. I can't pretend it isn't.
~ Ali Smith
L'amore se ne infischia del soldo, l'amore è più caldo del caldo. Che sia vinta la guerra o sia persa, è l'amore che il mondo attraversa. L'amore non fa rima né ha ragioni, l'amore rende pazzo chi lo ha. L'amore sopravvive alle stagioni […]. L'amore vince i giochi, ogni contesa, che scoppi sulla terra o dentro al mare. Nessuna risorsa è meglio spesa, di quelle bruciate per amare.
~ Ali Smith