Quotes About Devotion

He had been so married to her that he had grown pius himself, because he had believed in her piety.

First, it can never be something we do for God. Second, it is its own end. Third, it is a response to God's total character, more specifically to the triune God. First

Christ asked for everything he got.

The Brotherhood was effectively a religious community, and one of the idols they worshiped was Number.

Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.

To identify Woman with Altruism is to guarantee man absolute rights to her devotion; it is to impose on women a categorical must-be.

I haven't abandoned you, my little ally, my heart. I kiss you with all my soul.

Por otra parte, yo era extremista: quería todo o nada. Si amaba sería para toda la vida y me daría entera con mi cuerpo, mi corazón, mi cabeza y mi pasado. Me negaba a picotear emociones, voluptuosidades ajenas a esa idea. A decir verdad no tuve oportunidad de probar la solidez de esos principios, pues ningún seductor trató de conmoverlos.

Am înv??at, de asemenea, c? pentru a p?trunde taina lucrurilor trebuie, înainte de toate, s? te d?ruieÈ™ti lor.

Mie imi trebuie o viata devotata. Am nevoie sa actionez, sa ma agit, sa creez; am nevoie de un tel pe care sa-l ating, de greutati de invins, de o opera de realizat. Nu sunt facuta pentru lux.

The centre of the world is no longer where she is but where her beloved is; all roads leave from and lead to his house. She uses his words and repeats his gestures, adopts his maniacs and tics. 'I am Heathcliff,' says Catherine in Wuthering Heights; this is the cry of all women in love; she is another incarnation of the beloved, his reflection, his double: she is he. She lets her own world flounder in contingence. She lives in his universe.

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

To love God all-powerless.

Renoncer à tout ce qui n'est pas la grâce et ne pas désirer la grâce.

God denied himself for our sakes in order to give us the possibility of denying ourselves for him. This response, this echo, which it is in our power to refuse, is the only possible justification for the folly of love of the creative act.

Our problem, like Jonah's, does not lie in the parts of Scripture we find difficult to understand. Like him, we turn away from the word of the Lord that we do understand. We do not read it, we do not love it, we have become almost incapable of meditating upon it; we are careless, if not actually callous about submitting to it.

Then all my servile works were done A righteousness to raise; Now, freely chosen in the Son, I freely choose his ways.

Albert Einstein, who had been exiled from Germany for his guilty devotion to mathematics, world peace, and the violin, was now exiled from America for the same crimes.

He held her lightly enough and, after the chaste custom of the era, his hands were gloved. But his finger- tips felt a current from her body. He knew that she was the most exquisite child in the world; he knew that he was going to marry her and keep her forever in a shrine; he knew that after years of puzzled wonder about the purpose of life, he had found it.

My friend's wiry arms were around me and he was leading me to the chair. You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake say that you're not hurt! It was worth a wound -it was worth many wounds- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay beyond 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.

I love and am loved by a better man than he.