Quotes About Devotion

CHAPTER LXXIV BENEDICT

Having a comfortable allowance from his father, he could devote the whole proceeds of his curacy to violet gloves and unexceptionable neck ties.

Love truth and its fruits of life, for yourself and for others; devote to study and to the profitable use of study the best part of your time and your heart.

esposa del dios.

But I'm not repentant!" The Duke's voice rose suddenly high and passionate. "I love the woman—she is my life—all my bliss.

you're in my blood, in my bones, and in my heart there is naught but you.

Truly a wife is God's gift.

What peace it must be to know that someone is yours, no matter what - it is ordained, can never be otherwise.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider to be God-fearing and pious.

The nobelest expenditure is that which is made in the Divine Service

Lack of experience diminishes our power of taking a comprehensive view of the admitted facts. Hence those who dwell in intimate association with nature and its phenomena are more able to lay down principles such as to admit of a wide and coherent development; while those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of few observations.

Mona … lots of things are more binding than sex. They last longer too.

God give me, he prayed, a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst.

I have long since chosen him for my only good, my all; my pleasure, my happiness in this world as in the world to come... -Susanna Wesley

You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt! It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.

Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

I think that I had better go, Holmes. Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

There are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves, and I think that she must have been one.

It was worth a wound - it was worth many wounds - to know the depth of loyalty and love that lay behind that cold mask.

I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done.

His death didn't concern him. It was Sunshine he couldn't allow to die.

Abby," he murmured, lifting a hand to curve around her neck. "I love you." A sob slipped free and she wrapped her arms around his waist. One of his hands cupped the back of her neck and cuddled her in close. As he bent around her, he whispered, "I've loved you so long, I can't remember what it's like to not love you. And I'll go to my grave loving you. You're my everything.

Tipping her head, she stared into his tawny, hazel eyes, so intense, so burning-hot and all-consuming. Had she ever had a man look at her like that? Like she was all? Like she was everything? The center of his universe? Hell, screw the center … Law was looking at her like she was his universe.