Quotes About Devotion

Kelly should have been your sister, Rowdy. If I hadn't been so stupid, I wouldn't have lost Maria all those years ago. She chose the lover willing to love just her, rather than his own selfishness. Willing to give her all of himself, without the childish need to have it all his own way.

I'm going to marry you till you puke.

Everyone at some point in their lives should have a long great love affair with a magnificent lunatic.

To spend your time thinking about what you can do to keep from disappointing him, or what might happen if you were to displease her, or how it might look if you did this, or how you might be rejected if you didn't do that, rather than simply thinking about how you can please God, is not only worry, but stupidity.

Although the Bible records several emotions that Christ experiences, nowhere in the Bible will you find it said that Jesus was ever afraid! Why? Because the love that He possessed for the Father was absolutely and positively without question 100 percent perfect love.

every man needs an obsessio in order to enjoy life, and it was so much the better if that obsession was constructive.

Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.

There is only one thing worse than losing the one you love, and that is losing them without knowing why. If you are a dog, then your master is like a god to you, and the pain of losing him is greater still.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Sergeant Pietro Oliva was a good Catholic. He liked to go into a church and cross himself, genuflect to the alter, and then settle down to a little prayer and contemplation, savouring the coolness, the heavy odours, the darkness, and the sensation of being soaked in the atmosphere of centuries' worth of devotion that hung in the tenebrous and golden air of churches.

Love is what is left when the passion has gone

every man needs an obsession in order to enjoy life, and it was so much the better if that obsession was constructive.

Tell me, son... have you ever been intimidated by anyone?' 'Oh yes,' said Thomas. 'I don't believe it. By whom?' 'By Our Lord... on the altar.

Love itself is what is left over, when being being in love has burned away.

I will go with you, and when you make your camp, I will cook your meat, and when you wish to sleep, I will prepare your bed. Where you go, I will go.

You stick with him, no matter what. It's all he'll ever have, what you can give him.

Seems if the Lord really wants a man it doesn't need all that fuss to get him worked up to it. If a man isn't ready for the Lord, then the Lord isn't ready for him, and it's a straight-forward proposition between man and God without any wringing of the hands or hell-fire shouting.

In that I was selfish. I wanted her with me always.

We grew up to expect hardship and war. But a woman? I'd seen them follow their men to war, seen them seeking over battlefields to find their lonely dead, or the wounded who would die but for them. I have seen a woman pick up a man and carry him off the field to a place where he might have care.

Friends stick by each other when one is down. That is a true test of friendship. But sometimes, it is harder to stick by a friend who is up. That is the ultimate test of friendship.

someone special.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain

Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.

He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.