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Quotes About Devotion

I have lost you, Gat, because of how desperately, desperately I fell in love.
~ E. Lockhart
Then, half ashamed, hald joyful, she murmured 'O Machine! O Machine' and raised the volume to her lips. Thrice she kissed it, thrice inclined her head, thrice she felt the delirium of acquiescence.
~ E. M. Forster
I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me
~ E. M. Forster
The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured—especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.
~ E. O. Wilson
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
~ E. Stanley Jones
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.
~ e.e cummings
Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
~ E.E. Cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)
~ E.E. Cummings
The renewal of the Church will depend on the renewal of our prayer life.
~ E.G. Carre
I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.— Grace Trevelyan
~ E.L.
I hug him tightly. I can't imagine my life without you, Christian. I love you so much it frightens me." Me, too," he breathes. My life would be empty without you. I love you so much.
~ E.L.
You wanted hearts and flowers," he murmurs. I blink at him, not quite believing what I'm seeing. You have my heart." And he waves toward the room. And here are the flowers," I whisper, completing his sentence. Christian, it's lovely.
~ E.L.
Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.
~ E.M. Forster
I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.
~ E.M. Forster
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
~ E.M. Forster
You care for me a little bit, I do think," he admitted, "but I can't hang all my life on a little bit. You don't. You hang yours on Anne. You don't worry whether your relation with her is platonic or not, you only know it's big enough to hang a life on.
~ E.M. Forster
The second dream is more difficult to convey. Nothing happened. He scarcely saw a face, scarcely heard a voice say, "That is your friend," and then it was over, having filled him with beauty and taught him tenderness. He could die for such a friend, he would allow such a friend to die for him; they would make any sacrifice for each other, and count the world nothing, neither death nor distance nor crossness could part them, because "this is my friend.
~ E.M. Forster
When they sat it was nearly always in the same position – Maurice in a chair, and Durham at his feet, leaning against him. In the world of their friends this attracted no notice. Maurice would stroke Durham's hair.
~ E.M. Forster
But a lover is dogmatic. To him the world shall be beautiful and pure. When it is not, he ignores it.
~ E.M. Forster
An engagement is so potent a thing that sooner or later it reduces all who speak of it to this state of cheerful awe.
~ E.M. Forster
Love is the best, and the more she let herself love him, the more chance was there that he would set his soul in order.
~ E.M. Forster
Whom does Love concern beyond the beloved and the lover? Yet his impact deluges a hundred shores.
~ E.M. Forster
I can give points to a picture, I dare say,' said Maurice, having glanced at the Michelangelo. 'Clive, you're a silly little fool, and since you've brought it up I think you're beautiful, the only beautiful person I've ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
~ E.M. Forster
Clive, és um pateta, e, já que tocaste no assunto, posso dizer-te que te acho muito belo, a única pessoa bela que já vi na vida. Adoro a tua voz e tudo o que tem a ver contigo, até as tuas roupas ou a divisão onde estás sentado. Adoro-te.
~ E.M. Forster