Quotes About Devotion

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.

We hope someday to be saints, but not martyrs

At one of these shrines, Michael saw a woman on her knees praying, her husband sitting in their donkey-drawn cart guzzling a bottle of wine. The donkey's head dropped like a martyr's.

Kay laughed. "Then why do you go every single morning?" In a completely natural way, Mama Corleone said, "I go for my husband," she pointed down toward the floor, "so he don't go down there." She paused. "I say prayers for his soul every day so he go up there." She pointed heavenward.

Yo de Lily me enamoré como un becerro, la forma más romántica de enamorarse —se decía también templarse al cien—...

Porque, en su intensa vida yo debía de ser una de las pocas cosas estables, el idiota fiel y enamorado, siempre allí, esperando la llamada para hacer sentir al ama que era todavía lo que sin duda ya estaba dejando de ser, lo que pronto no sería más: joven, bella, amada, codiciable.

Ik was de onbaatzuchtigste, de meest toegewijde van haar minnaars en gelegenheidsvriendjes. De opofferingsgezinde, gezeglijke sukkel.

Sólo los enamorados se abstraen así ?se acercó a él y le revolvió los cabellos?. Baja de la luna, sobrino.

Ella nunca me había amado, pero me tenía confianza, el cariño que despierta un criado leal.

Bueno, en el fondo yo sabía que ella no sería nunca una mujer normal. Y tampoco quería que lo fuese, porque lo que yo amaba en ella era también lo indómito e imprevisible de su personalidad.

Martyrdom is something a Christian resigns himself to, not an end he seeks out.

Ik ben benieuwd of je nog verliefder op me wordt of me in de steek laat voor een van die ondeugende Peruaanse meisjes, brave jongen.' 'Wat ondeugende Peruaanse meisjes betreft heb ik aan jou mijn handen al meer dan vol.

Miss Manson," said Freddie, "I think I love you.

I don't think love is blind, true love is probably the most clear-eyed state of being there is.' 'Maybe you're right. Maybe with true love, you see and you love anyway…

Everyone gathered around this drink in order to devote themselves to their favorite activity: discussion. This discussion had its own purpose: To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.

The notion that you can come to church on Sunday and bend your knee in worship when in fact you have not done so during the week is a delusion.

If you're bored, one thing is for sure: You're not following in the footsteps of Christ.

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

Jesus didn't die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous. Faithfulness is not holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell. The will of God is not an insurance plan. It's a daring plan. The complete surrender of your life to the cause of Christ isn't radical. It's normal. It's time to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. It's time to go all in and all out for the All in All. Pack your coffin!

Steele gave the unapologetic impression that he could break you with his bare hands if it weren't for his strict devotion to Jesus and army discipline.

Anh yeu em, or "I Love You.

Because we are what we love, our identity and our dignity depend on what we love and the depth and passion with which we love.

Holy habits are that: the disciplines, the routines by which we stay alive and focused on Him. At first we choose them and carry them out; after a while they are part of who we are. And they carry us.