Quotes About Devotion

For until ye are willing to lose thyself in service, ye may not indeed know that peace which He has promised to give--to all.

There is no marriage in Heaven, but there is love.

I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.

Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.

Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)

For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

My little old dog a heart-beat at my feet

My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.

She was, so to speak, an impersonal creature, because of her great heart; a woman who did not belong to herself: God seemed to have made her only to give her to others.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

La fe de Abraham fue probada cuando Dios le pidió dar todo. La fe no puede ser menos que total. Confiar en Dios significa verlo solo a Él, encontrar en Él todas nuestras esperanzas, no retener nada, no tener ninguna reserva. La fe es compromiso. Pero solo porque la fe mira a Dios y no a nosotros, el dar de la fe es realmente recibir. En compromiso, el precio que la fe paga es todo. Pero en confianza total, el precio es nada. La fe mira a Dios, no al hombre, como el dador.

Es el celo del amor de Dios en Cristo lo que reivindica a la iglesia como la novia del Señor.

All for love, and nothing for reward.

So all we knowOf what they do aboveIs that they happy are, and that they love.

For these people religion is the only form of intellectuality.

Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.

Brush those tears from your eyes And try and realize That from now on I'll always be true. I went away But I didn't mean to stay And I will regret it until my dying day.

The undercurrent of my every thought: To seek you, find you, have you for my own.

And what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? And what are you that, missing you, As many days as crawl I should be listening to the wind And looking at the wall? I know a man that's a braver man And twenty men as kind, And what are you, that you should be The one man in my mind? Yet women's ways are witless ways, As any sage will tell,— And what am I, that I should love So wisely and so well?

Belief In God is primarily a matter of the moral will.

Y queda en mí el mandato inexorable que dictan las fidelidades eternas. Cuando Independiente gana un campeonato —al fin y al cabo, Dios y sus milagros evidentemente existen— lo primero que hago, en la cancha o en mi casa, es levantar los brazos y los ojos hacia el cielo, abrazándolo a mi viejo a través de todos los rigores del destino, y por encima de todas las traiciones de la muerte.