Quotes About Devotion

Heaven will be heaven only if my wife is there.

You know you're in love when the most interesting conversation you have with the opposite gender is about the one you claim to be in love with.

those strains that can imagine women's "empowerment" only in traditionally male terms of physical strength, career success, and work in scientific professions centered on things rather than the professions centered on people that women all over the world prefer. The antifeminine cohort recoil at such Mary-Shelleyan qualities as "submission, love, tenderness, self-sacrifice, devotement, sympathy.

His heart was now beating rapidly. He wanted to embrace her, cover her with kisses, caress her hair, touch her breast, stroke her thighs: he wanted to sing songs for her, dance dances for her, write poems for her.

And even though it kills me when you're not looking at me, or it feels that way, I love the fact that you're still trying to put things together—to make them better. And I'd never sacrifice that, even if it meant your eyes were always on me.

There is nothing warmer to a man's heart than the woman he loves telling him she's ready to sneak behind enemy lines and rescue him.

Dear Lazarus! I agree with you entirely that it is best for me to go with you, for only in your company do I enjoy myself most completely…. I kiss you warmly and am, as always, your ever-loving Babette Morgenthau

for all her faults, they knew that at heart she was a loving and loyal sister and daughter.

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.

I need to spend time with God even when I do not know what to pray.

Like many men who experience fatherhood relatively late in life, Martin Luther was a devoted parent. Luther wrote his children letters of touching intensity, patiently converting the joys of the Christian life into a language of storytelling fit for the very young. A home with children brought out the best in Luther in a way that theological disputation patently did not.

David. She is you. So you have to prove your love for her every goddamn minute of every goddamn day. Anything less and you fail the Human Being Test.

To Hitler, personal and ideological loyalty was more important than professional aptitude and performance.

In his last letter to Hitler, on December 1941, Gandhi praised the Führer's 'bravery [and] devotion to your Fatherland . . . Nor do we believe that you are the monster described by your opponents.'82 Gandhi was fortunate that it was the Viceroy who ruled India rather than Hitler; the Führer's advice to Lord Halifax when they met at Berchtesgaden in 1937 had been 'Shoot Gandhi.

Derek frowned, looking down. "That's fine... I'll just, uh, stand here. And protect you. Yes. That is definitely what I will be doing.

We are each the love of someone's life.

He kisses--how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can use only the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you.

So many people will do. But once you've actually been in love, you can't live with "will do"; it's worse than living with yourself.

It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.

Man will tell woman he will die for her, but I say, tell woman that you will die for her both physically and interior

I would die for Conner Kirk. Sometimes, I think I have died for him dozens of times, over and over again.

Abba Lot went to see Abba Joseph and said to him, "Abba, as far as I can, I say my [daily prayers], I fast a little, I pray and meditate. I live in peace as far as I can. I purify my thoughts. What else can I do?" Then the old man stood up, stretched his arms towards heaven. His fingers became like ten lamps of fire and he said to him, "If you want, you can be all flame."18