Quotes About Devotion

So who would do all this?' 'I should,' Richard said. 'Even to sleeping in your own chamber.' 'That I baulk at,' Lymond said. 'The rest you can have. One cock per pen is enough.

How about that, my own brother, my own bright light, thou Igor?

She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?

Even if it is the twilight of the world, before night falls I will sleep in your arms.' . . .

It will be sent that, although the writer's love is verily a jealous love, it is a jealousy for and not of his creatures. He will tolerate no interference either with them or between them and himself.

he is filled with the solemn intoxication that comes of intricate ritual faultlessly performed.

By that time we shall, I hope, be moving in different circles. I shall be in the one devoted to murderers, and you in the much lower and hotter one devoted to those who tempt others to murder them.

What a shocking set of crooks these English servants are! Not even murder will turn them from their feudal devotion to the man who pays!

So handsome, I always think," whispered the Duchess to Mr. Parker; "just exactly like William Morris, with that bush of hair and beard and those exciting eyes looking out of it—so splendid, these dear men always devoted to something or other—not but what I think socialism is a mistake—of course it works with all those nice people, so good and happy in art linen and the weather always perfect—Morris, I mean, you know—but so difficult in real life.

El amor es la única cosa. Atesora tu amor, niña. Vuelve junto a él. Vete a la cama con él. Es la única cosa.

What do you want me to do, Peter? Chuck the ball back to me if it runs out of the circle. Not obviously. Just exercise your devastating talent for keeping to the point and speaking the truth. That sounds easy. It is--for you. That's what I love you for. --Gaudy Night

By awakening a little earlier to have more devotional time with God, you may find that you have increased physical and mental energy throughout the day as well. To resist the daily temptations that assail us, we need the same secret weapon Jesus used. It is described in Ephesians 6:17: "Take . . . the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

As it is the business of tailors to make clothes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.

prayer is a divine worship due to none but God the Father, Son, and Spirit.9

For Watts, the doxological always followed the theological.

Is it the beloved who evokes love, or the lover who has love to give?

There was more pleasure in one kiss from the man I loved than in thousand nights with a stranger.

Love is purity.

and when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you ask them Will you take my heart-- stains and all? and they say I will, and they ask you the same question and you say, I will, too.

How many of us have a love so true it spans eternity? A purity of need so clear it can remain strong in the face of all that the world throws at us? This is Karen Ann McNeil, the woman who fell to Earth, the woman for whom the people in her life never gave up waiting.

Once it got into your blood, you could never get it out again.

Jennie understands love. Yes, murmured Mrs. Archibald, she knows what love is. I said: then she can understand religion, because religion starts with love. Religion is love. Without first loving God and feeling God's love for us, there can be no religion.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.