Quotes About Devotion

We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God's way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.

To do each day, humbly, and so that God alone may see it, all the good that one can do; always to seek out all the misery and grief within reach in order to relieve them; to cultivate in oneself a lively sympathy for everyone; and to do all this for God alone — that is the goal of all human existence.

I do," Olaf says. "Love is putting someone else's needs before yours, like, you know, how Kristoff brought you back here to Hans and left you forever.

Some people are worth melting for," he says.

You sacrificed yourself for me?" "I love you," I say weakly.

A good friend is someone you can count on. No matter what.

I'm not greedy. I just want one person. The world is so big and there are so many people. But I only want one.

She has too deep a root within my Soul ever to be remov'd

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

I would know you from the heart of the sun. I would know you even if I were mad. I will know you always, whatever form I wear. I swear it.

Children own us, and no matter how much we squirm and struggle, they will never let us go. That is true love.

no matter who else loves her, I am her father and my love counts most.

time she was consumed with

With my lost saints - I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life! - and if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile . . . her look . . . her way Of speaking gently . . . for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may be changed, or change for thee- and love so wrought, May be unwrought so.

I praise Thee while my days go on; I love Thee while my days go on: Through dark and dearth, through fire and frost, With emptied arms and treasure lost, I thank Thee while my days go on. And having in thy life-depth thrown Being and suffering (which are one), As a child drops his pebble small Down some deep well, and hears it fall Smiling so I. THY DAYS GO ON.

When our two souls stand up erect and strong, Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher, Until the lengthening wings break into fire At either curvd point, what bitter wrong Can the earth do to us, that we should not long Be here contented?

Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you; Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving; Unless you can die when the dream is past -- Oh, never call it loving!

"Guess now who holds thee?"—"Death," I said. But thereThe silver answer rang—"Not Death, but Love."

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Therefore to this dog will I,Tenderly not scornfully,Render praise and favor.