Quotes About Devotion

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

The day that man forgets that love is identical with sacrifice, he will ask how a God of love could demand mortification and self-denial.

Say to yourself over and over again regardless of what happens: "God loves me!" And then add: "And I will try to love Him!

It loves the other, not because of attractiveness, or talents, or sympathy, but because of God. To the Christian, a person is one for whom I must sacrifice myself, not one who must exist for my sake.

As our Lord said, Where your treasure is, there is your heart also. Hence the least love of God is worth more than the knowledge of all created things.

The lover of God never knows the words "too much." Those who accuse others of loving God or religion too much really do not love God at all, nor do they know the meaning of love.

He has mercy on those who fear Him, from generation to generation." Fear is here understood as filial, that is, a shrinking from hurting one who is loved. Such is the fear a son has for a devoted father and the fear a Christian has of Christ. Fear is here related to love.

These four effects of love are: unity, mutual indwelling, ecstasy, and zeal.

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more.

Real love uses freedom to attach itself unchangeably to another.

Celibacy is not the absence of a passion; it is rather the intensity of a passion.

God accepts only what His Spirit inspires. We must bring back to God what He has given.

When Whistler was complimented on the portrait of his mother, he said, "You know how it is; one tries to make one's Mummy just as nice as he can." When God became Man, He too, I believe, would make His Mother as nice as He could—and that would make her a perfect Mother.

We belong to a different union, where love, not hours, is the standard. When we think of all the Lord has done for us, we can never do enough. The word 'enough' does not exist in love's vocabulary.

No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer.

love needs no reasons. Sex asks science to defend it; love never asks "Why?" It says, "I love you." Love is its own reason.

As Euripides said: "He is not a lover who does not love forever.

To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

Cuando despierte - dijo- , recuérdame que me voy a casar con ella !

I've remained a virgin for you.

Nu trecea o clip? f?r? s? se gândeasc? la ea, tot ce mânca ÅŸi bea avea gustul ei, viaÅ£a era ea, la orice or? ÅŸi pretutindeni, cum numai Domnul avea dreptul ÅŸi puterea de a fi ÅŸi c? bucuria suprem? a sufletului s?u ar fi s? moar? împreun? cu ea.

You saved me again, she told him with a starstruck gaze. He cupped her cheek and gave her a tender smile in the dark. Because you are my princess and I am your knight.

When you find the one, my lad, grab her up in your arms and never let her go. You may never get another chance.