Quotes About Devotion

When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music—then, and then only, are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.

In my heart I do have a fear...I long to grow more godly with each passing day. Call it the fear of the Lord, being in awe of Him and scared to death of any sin that would mar my life.

And she was attractive. She had an unusual mixture of innocence and individuality. A man who loved her might waken all kinds of passions in her, and high among them would be loyalty.

You know they were never apart? He loved her so much he never grew tired of watching her, listening to her, hearing her laugh. He still found her just as fascinating, after twelve years.

He was also inordinately fond of cats.

There is nothing more precious than true friendship. It is the rock upon which all other loves must stand, if they are to endure.

She flushed hot to remember how utterly she had given herself to him in that one consuming kiss. All her heart and mind and will had been in it, all the things she could never ever have said to him.

to care for any person or issue enough to sacrifice greatly for it was the surest sign of being wholly alive. What

Hester, recently married herself, and knowing the depth and the sweep of love, ached for Callandra that she sacrificed so much. And yet loving her husband as she did, for all his faults and vulnerabilities, Hester, too, would rather have been alone than accept anyone else.

I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me! -Claudia.

God, why didn't you make us all dogs?

In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.

I would have done just about anything for him.

That's the glory of it; thousands of years have passed and yet you can follow Him so close!

That was the test of love, he thought dreamily, when you can't bear to be this happy without the other person with you.

You are the pure embodiment of madness.

They know how bad they are. They don't care. They do what they do because...because they love it.

Save your kisses for the world, little one. - Magnus to Lestat before going into the fire.

His hands would soon be trembling and he would have indigestion, but he didn't care. When you love coffee you abandon everything to that love.

Finally those you love are simply ... those you love.

I had a great and unshakable love of her. I don't think anyone else did. And one thing that endeared her to me always was that she never said anything ordinary.

It was almost as if he had become, in his inveterate goodness, a little bit of a simpleton as is bound to happen, I think, if and when one gives oneself absolutely to God.

Here's my love, not in little droplets, but from the very river of my being. It reaches all the way down to the roots of my being, tangling my heart in its burning mesh. For you. Drink deep.

I love you,' Marius whispered suddenly, passionately as a mortal man might. 'I have always loved you. I wish that I could believe in anything other than love at this moment; but I can't.