Quotes About Devotion

I'm here to do whatever Mademoiselle might desire me to do for her," Ayesha said, in her soft voice. "It will be my pleasure to please Mademoiselle in every way.

The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself, "Greater love hath no man--" and Justin thought it sounded as though he were quoting someone else.

So Aquila took his father's service upon him. It wasn't as good as love; it wasn't as good as hate; but it was something to put into the emptiness within him; better than nothing at all.

I've always said that people who claim "you can't buy love," have never purchased a dog. You most certainly can buy love, whether it's a shelter pet, a rescue dog or a pure-bred Sheltie.

what human walking this earth is really worthy of their dog's unconditional love?

For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Try to capture what you can't bear to be without

Man's mind, as well as his feet and devotion, wander easily, and we are readily given to changing our minds. Our attention wanders always, and we are better at drifting than commanding in our lives.

And that's what it's about, isn't it? Love? Love's about making it last, making it stick, making it count - even when it hurts, when times are hard, when people change, when life changes them. If you love someone, then you have to want to love them, whoever they are.

The feeling of how much I loved you almost drowned me - it was like I couldn't catch my breath.

Becoming holy is being so taken over by the extraordinariness of God that that is what you are really interested in, and that is what radiates from you to reflect on other people.

This life of utter givenness to God and the other, the neighbour, is already a life that death cannot contain.

how blessed am i that i can walk beside you, lean upon you, and live within the warmth of your love

Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.

Pero mi corazón es más brillante que todas las estrellas del cielo, porque brilla para Annie, abrasado por la luz del amor de mi Annie, por el recuerdo de los bellos ojos luminosos de mi Annie....

Cuando el hombre ama de veras, su pasión lo penetra todo y es capaz de traspasar la tierra.

O amor deseja a eternidade da coisa amada.

When you know my love, my love will warm you.

If I were damned of body and soul,I know whose prayers would make me whole,Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine.

Offering of Self to God O Lord, we all have things we need to release. With your help we will lay aside all in life that burdens us, leaving behind those things that do not matter and clinging only to the things that do. Amen.

It would have been far easier to write about an active Order; people can see, understand and admire the good they do. 'Sister,' said a young American soldier when, in India, he watched a nun bandaging the rotting and malodorous finger stumps of an old leper, 'Sister, I wouldn't do your work for ten thousand dollars a day.' 'Neither would I,' said the nun.

The way the night knows itself with the moon, be that way with me. Or, alternately translated, Union is a raging river running toward the sea. Tonight the moon kisses the stars. O beloved, be like that to me.

...my heart sinks like a comb into wave after wave of your silky hair.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.