Quotes About Devotion

Thy will be done –' No Muslim claiming to be a 'slave of God' ever gave a more sweeping consent than that. In that prayer you invite Him to do His worst. The perfect masochist.

Samuel Clemens put it: Where she was, there was Eden. Omar phrased it: -thou beside me in the wilderness, ah wilderness were paradise enow. Browning termed it Summum Bonum. All were asserting the same great truth, which is for me: Heaven is where Margrethe is.

Wealth—great wealth—is a curse . . . unless you are devoted to the money-making game for its own sake. And even then it has serious drawbacks.

martyrdom. If Mike had given them something big—like stereo, or bingo—but he gave them the Truth. Or a piece

Where you go, I go. Today and to the end of our lives. Unless you tell me to get out, that you don't want me anymore. I have spoken." "You certainly have, dear. Hilda?

The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation

Romantic love has always been inextricably tied to spiritual aspiration.

A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.

You walked a mile in the rain to drink hot water?" "To be with you," she said. "You're better than pie." And I turned under the umbrella and embraced her with my free arm and pressed my mouth against hers and held her hard against me and smelled her perfume and closed my eyes and kissed her for a long time in the still rain, and even after

Womanliness means only motherhood; All love begins and ends there.

This: no artist lives and loves, that longs not Once, and only once, and for one only, (Ah, the prize!) to find his love a language

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted

He married, but not happily. He hated his wife for breathing with lungs, which crayfish do not possess. He divorced his wife – and spent the rest of his life in the service of an idea.

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body— the wishbone.

What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.

Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away From one another once you are agreed That life is only life forevermore Together wing to wing and oar to oar

Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away

Start with a big fat lump in your throat. Start with a profound sense of wrong, a deep homesickness, a crazy lovesickness, and run with it. If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. Do what you love. And don't stop until you get what you love.

If I can with confidence say That still for another day, Or even another year, I will be there for you, my dear, It will be because, though small As measured against the All, I have been so instinctively thorough About my crevice and burrow.

For this is love and nothing else is love, The which it is reserved for God above To sanctify to what far ends He will, But which it only needs that we fulfil.

You must understand the following: In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.