Quotes About Devotion

Que ton désir soit de l'amour, et que ta possession soit amoureuse.

Messieurs, il faut aimer son aigle, l'aimer pour qu'il devienne beau ; car c'est parce qu'il sera beau que vous devez aimer votre aigle...

Etre aimé n'est rien, c'est être préféré que je désire.

Seigneur, il m'apparaît parfois que j'ai besoin de son amour pour vous aimer!

Pour moi, être aimé n'est rien, c'est être préféré que je désire.

The deeper the soul plunges into religious religious devotion, the more it loses all sense of reality, all need, all desire, all love for reality.

je ne savais rien exprimer du transport nouveau de mon cÅ"ur; mais je pressais sa tête contre mon cÅ"ur et sur son front mes lèvres par où mon âme s'écoulait.

The deeper the soul plunges into religious devotion, the more it loses all sense of reality, all need, all desire, all love for reality.

If, as I say, I did not love my betrothed, at any rate, I had never loved any other woman.

My happiness is made of fervour. Through the medium of all things without distinction, I have passionately worshipped

Il ne voulait penser qu'à elle, à Darka, comme si c'était pour la revoir qu'il lui fallait foncer à bord d'une vieille guimbarde dans les rues les plus cahoteuses de Lviv, secouer ses passagers pour les libérer de leurs calculs rénaux et aller ensuite la rejoindre, retrouver son guichet éclairé toute la nuit, rempart de lumière protégeant sa magicienne aux longs gants colorés.

Love is in essence subversive.

For true love joins the hearts of two persons with so great a feeling of delight that they cannot desire to embrace anybody else; on the contrary they take care to avoid the solaces of everybody else as though they were horrible things, and they keep themselves for each other.

Cinema is a very difficult and serious art, it requires sacrificing of yourself. You should belong to it, it shouldn't belong to you. Cinema uses your life, not vice versa.

Whether one wishes to fly before it has become possible, or cast a bell without having learned how to do it, or paint an icon - all these acts demand that, for the price of his creation, man should die, dissolve himself in his work, give himself entirely. That is the meaning of the prologue - the man flew, and for that he sacrificed his life.

But this was Saratoga, which I love even during the bad times;

We prove the value we attach to things by the time we devote to them.

Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work, work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.

Oh! my Lord Jesus, though I do not understand it, though I cannot grasp it, though my struggles avail nothing, I am not going to let Thee go. If it is possible for a sinner on earth to have Jesus every day, every hour, and every moment in resurrection power dwelling in his heart, shining within him, filling him with love and joy,—if that is possible, I want it.

If you are not willing to sacrifice time to get alone with him, and to give him time everyday to work in you, and to keep up the link of connection between you and himself, he cannot give you that blessing of his unbroken fellowship.

The reality is that a heart desire for prayer is lacking. Many do not know how to spend half an hour with God! It is not that they absolutely do not pray; they may pray every day—but they have no joy in prayer. Joy is the sign that God is everything to you.

love—God's love to me, and my love to God, and my love to my fellowmen. The three are one; you cannot separate them.

In the life of earnest Christians who pursue and profess holiness, humility ought to be the chief mark of their uprightness.

There is no choice for us; we must either deny self or deny Christ. Deliverance from self-life means to be a vessel overflowing with love to everybody all day.