Quotes About Devotion

So live. I'll be the nun for you. I am now.

I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.

Dedicate (donate, give all) your life to something larger than yourself and pleasure - to the largest thing you can: to God, to relieving suffering, to contributing to knowledge, to adding to literature, or something else. Happiness lies this way, and it beats pleasure hollow.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give your whole heart to whatever you do.

But I'll do anything in my power to stop them from taking you away." She took a shuddering breath, then let her eyes fall closed. "Promise?" "Anything. As you said in Tokyo, we're meant to be together.

I love Lindsey's work. I didn't hang around with him for seven years for nothing, listening to him play guitar every single night, watching him fall asleep with his electric guitar across his chest. There were nights I had to pry the guitar off of him so he could sleep in a normal position.

Because faithfulness is not a human question, but a divine one.

There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved.

I've met men I would trust in the mouth of hell. Byrne or Douglas. I would trust them to breathe for me, to pump my blood with their hearts. Did you love them best? Would they be the ones you'd choose? To die with? No. The one time I've felt what you describe was with a woman. A lover, you mean? said Jack. Not your own flesh and blood? I think she was my own flesh and blood. I truly believe she was.

I will think of you every day. All the time. If ever you should think of me and wonder what I'm doing, I'm thinking of you. That's all I'll be doing. Nothing else.

I once asked Cortez whether he would risk his life for other men in the platoon. "I'd actually throw myself on the hand grenade for them," he said. I asked him why. "Because I actually love my brothers," he said. "I mean, it's a brotherhood. Being able to save their life so they can live, I think is rewarding. Any of them would do it for me.

One of God's greatest oversights is that dogs don't live as long as man.

The Emperor's cat had received the fifth rank, and was given the appropriate title-name 'My?bu'. It was a charming creature, and the Emperor was quite devoted to it. One

God, help me to live a life for You. I long to be a whole person – consistent and united. Reach into my spirit and make me whole

Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.

The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.

Too many organizations care about numbers, not fans.

The priest raises his foot. In it he feels a dull, heavy pain. This is no mere formality. He will now trample on what he has considered the most beautiful thing in his life, on what he has believed most pure, on what is filled with the ideals and the dreams of man.

I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, The more you beat me, I will fawn on you: Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me, Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave, Unworthy as I am, to follow you. What worse place can I beg in your love,-- And yet a place of high respect with me,-- Than to be used as you use your dog?

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

I would give up all the summers of eternity for you. I love you. Forever and my summer days, I'll love you.

I love you. At your best and your worst, I love you. Paris or Darkfrith. Here, there, and everywhere, I love you.

Being in love makes all that work easier, but it does not make it go away. There will be necessary sacrifices. There will be pain.

You deserve someone who loves you without conditions. Who would never look at another woman for the rest of his life with anything but indifference, because you are the sum of his dreams. The one girl whose eyes shine with all the days and nights he prays will come. His stars and his sun and his moon. His happiness, his true heart. His voice roughened. His everything. She gazed up at him, her lips trembling. Is that it? Is that how you feel about her? Yes, he said, and dropped his hands.