Quotes About Devotion

True love doesn't need time to grow. It just needs a heart to take root in." Tully wiped the tears from Libby's face. "And it needs its other half to flourish." She tapped over her heart. "You've taken root in here," she tapped Libby's chest, "and in here is where it will flourish.

growth is limited by their fanaticism. They belong mostly to the

What does it mean to love an animal, in my case a cat, in the fierce, entire, and unambivalent way that some of us do?

You've read George Eliot till you're not comfortable unless you're renouncing something.

Two things a man can give the woman he loves...his name and his protection...

I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife.

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's real rebellion.

Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.

Facts. I was taken down to see the place, The family place in Devon--and John's mother. "Of course, you understand," he said, "my brother Will have the place." He smiled; he was so sure The world was better for primogeniture. And yet he loved that place, as Englishmen

I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.

My love for the child asleep in the crib, the child's need for me, for my vigilance, had made my life valuable in a way that even the most abundantly offered love, my parents', my brother's, even Tom's, had failed to do. Love was required of me now--to be given, not merely to be sought and returned.

He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.

I'm fated, and I'm entirely yours.

I still love you, for I see your soul

You'll never leave me now. You're mine. Be as I say.

I'm giving all I am to all of this. It's for you.

I saw you come to me as if you were a god

True love is a preview of heaven, and you do what you got to, to get it.

If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.

Patience grows well in such soil. She is the ally of a soul that makes God its primary pursuit,

Brother Lawrence, known for his intimacy with God, wrote, "The foundation of spiritual life, for me, has been a high image of God and a high esteem of God."2

I think we deserve people who really, really love us.

Faith without love is to be in people's bondage. Love without faith, is to be in your own bondage.

Oh, Lord, bestow me with the power, that as much as I love her, I extinguish the need of loving her within me.