Quotes About Devotion

Faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind.

I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweet tooth in his head.

If I have to do battle with you a thousand times to prove my point, I'll do it.' The queen unwisely asked, 'But to prove what point, my dear Hamlet?' 'That I loved Ophelia! Fifty thousand brothers, with all the love they can summon, would not equal my love for here. Ophelia, Ophelia.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Antes que cualquier otra relación, Cristo debe ser nuestra prioridad máxima. Cristo busca un compromiso basado en la convicción, no en la preferencia; es decir, debemos consagrarnos a Cristo por lo que él es y por lo que ha hecho por nosotros, no por alguna ventaja inmediata que puedan aportar nuestra fe y nuestro compromiso con él.

Returning the tithe is a statement of faith in God.

How dare you say it's nothing to me? Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

You love who you love, who you love

Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you

So what do you think about love?' I asked Mesut in a casual tone. 'Love is to get caught on something,' he said readily. 'It's to be unable to forget.

He'd learned that when you love someone purely enough, all you wanted was for that person to be happy. (p. 419)

Even Meredith's attraction to Freddy had paled when compared to the real love of Meredith's life. The steady, unconditional, fortifying love of Meredith's father was gone forever.

There's a line at the end of the song that goes 'Golden girl, I'll keep you forever.' And that was the jumping-off point for my own song. Vivi was my golden girl. She was the one I would hold above all others." He looks at Willa. "To this day, that's true.

Then Phoebe came to the underlined verses. My life with you has been beyond beyond/And there's nothing beyond it I'm seeking/I wouldn't mind being dead/If I could still be with you.

I love you in a way that is so powerful it lifts me up, it propels me forward. You propel me forward.

nothing took precedence over reading; it was considered the holiest activity a person could engage in.

This is one thing he has always loved about his wife: In her heart, she is eternally seventeen.

Maia's favorite. Her mother and grandmother loved her because they had to. Huck loves her because he wants to.

Don't you think everyone deserves to find love?" Link asks. "Isn't that what we're all programmed to search for? Someone we can connect with—a lover, a friend—someone to build a life with?

that's what unconditional love is all about. The 'no-matter-what's.

It is for the wedding, else to be buried in.

She twists like a flame. Her back, a sierra of bone, her hips, a sandstone canyon. And I can believe her gaze, born from a thousand years dreaming and as dew-cool as moonlight, is only for me. — Eliot Khalil Wilson, from "New Orleans Odalisque," The Saint of Letting Small Fish Go (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2003)

I just think of him as my elk. And I'm his boy.

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.