Quotes About Devotion

He said her name, repeatedly, so that she never lost the sound of his voice around it. So that every time someone called her name, she would be able to hear only Aman Erum.

Anyone can be a mother, but it takes a very special woman to be a mom.

Sawyer, darling, I've

Cuántas horas he pasado conviviendo en secreto con mi idea de ella! ¡Nos hemos amado tanto, dentro de mis sueños! Pero ni siquiera ahí, se lo juro, he soñado nunca poseerla. Soy delicado y casto incluso en mis sueños. Respeto hasta el sueño de una mujer bella.

Se casaron con amor, más que por amor.

Quien no ha tenido nunca un perro no sabe lo que es querer y ser querido» La frase es de Arthur Schopenhauer. Es una chorrada, pero es bonita.

Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.

Amo como ama o amor. Não conheço nenhuma outra razão para amar senão amar. Que queres que te diga, além de que te amo, se o que quero dizer-te é que te amo?

Que nuestro amor sea una oración. Úngeme de verte y haré de mis momentos de soñarte un rosario donde mi tedio sea un Padre Nuestro y mis angustias Aves Marías...

13] Incluso pensar así es actuar. Sólo en el devaneo absoluto, donde nada de lo activo interviene, donde al fin hasta nuestra consciencia de nosotros mismos se atasca en el lodo —sólo así, en ese húmedo y blando no-ser, se consigue competentemente renunciar a la acción.   No querer comprender, no analizar... Verse a uno mismo como a la Naturaleza; observar sus propias impresiones como quien observa un campo —esto es la sabiduría.

Hay algo más cristiano que la mosca? La mosca es constante, persistente, zumbona. A la mosca le gusta andar en las llagas, en el pus, en la basura, como a los verdaderos cristianos.

I'm not attached to anything. I'm attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.

I do not know You God because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.

I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true." May 19, 1962

Two people can remain in love-- a phrase made practically useless by stinking romanticism--only if their common desire for each other unites in a greater desire for God.

She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint...

When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.

My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.

Dear God please give me some place, no matter how small, but let me know it and keep it. If I am the one to wash the second step everyday, let me know it and let me wash it and let my heart overflow with love washing it.

If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet.

I don't want to be doomed to mediocrity in my feeling for Christ. I want to feel. I want to love. Take me, dear Lord, and set me in the direction I am to go

Give me the grace to be impatient for the time when I shall see You face to face and need no stimulus than that to adore You.

Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue. It's a relatively benign mania, which enables you to see something new in a place where you would not have expected to find it.

esas comparaciones de prometido, esposo, amante celestial y de matrimonio eterno, que se repiten en los sermones, le despertaban en lo hondo del corazón ternezas inesperadas