Quotes About Devotion

I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this modern world of ours, she wraps her sublime body in great heavy furs and warms her feet on the prostrate body of her lover. I imagine the favorite of this beautiful despot, who is whipped when his mistress grows tired of kissing him, and whose love only grows more intense the more he is trampled underfoot. I shall call the picture Venus in Furs

You say, "How can I increase my faith?" Know more about God. The secret of having more faith is to know more about God. Faith has a direct relationship with our knowledge of God.

tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!

Oh, I've a love, a true, true love, who waits upon yon shore... and if my love won't be my love, then I will live no more...

To live is to love, to love is to live.

He took her face into his hands and his kiss blotted out the sky

He loved her very much. She inspired his work. He used to say, 'There is no meaning but what we assign to life, and she is my meaning.

It was Mabel Evie called when she got back. Mabel who came to her side, even though it was very early in the morning.

Qwilleran said, "If I had a dog, it would be a German shepherd.

What saves us? he said wryly. You do know the answer, Alix. 'Tis all the things you mentioned to Merwynna, and something else. He looked into her green eyes. So faith, hope, and love abide, these three, but the greatest of these is love. Love saves us? Does it not? Not simply sexual love, but also love of one's fellow man, love of God, love of family and

No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money" (Matthew 6:24).

God, I love you, he said, and laid his head on her belly, his arms locked around her hips. Madelyn slid her fingers into his hair. It took you long enough, she said gently. What I lack in quickness, I make up in staying power. Meaning? That I'll still be telling you that fifty years from now. He paused and turned his head to kiss her stomach.

Her lips parted slightly in a smile so female it took his breath away, and her deep blue eyes beckoned him, dared him. Once again her hips lifted. What are you waiting for? she breathed. For you, he answered, and even as he lost himself in the mindless ecstasy of making love to her, the truth of that remained. He'd waited for her forever.

Love! Who ever said that love made the world go round? Love was a killing pain, an addiction that had to be fed; yet even in her pain she knew that she wouldn't have it any other way.

know so much more. Mark was certain that learning everything about her would only reinforce what he was already sure of, that she was the most amazing woman he'd ever

Caleb resisted an urge to go back to Fort Deveraux, snatch Lily up, and take her with him to Spokane. If she was at his side, no one would hurt her—he'd see to that.

When the moon strays off into space and the last star winks out forever, I will still love you

Lindsay McKenna

He traced her arched eyebrow. "Every morning when I wake up with you at my side, you're more beautiful than yesterday.

I am one of those who should first connect with coffee and then the Holy Spirit before I go public.

The point is that love gives even when it is not returned. Once Love has chosen, He does not change His mind.

And if I'd once fallen hard for my husband, I fell even harder for my child. It was as if my entire life had been building to this one moment, my finest work, my greatest accomplishment, this tiny bundle of precious life.

Loving a child was humbling.

We have been together too long for her to want to be apart. We are hers, the children of her sister's body and her heart.