Quotes About Devotion

Both noun (eusebia) and verb (sebizo) derive from the Greek root seb-, which refers to the awe that radiates from gods to humans and is given back as worship. Everything related to this root has fear in it.

I am not your slave. I serve Apollo.

Dear friend, still here? Standing by me, still with a care for me, the blind man?

Io ho desiderato, fino alla disperazione, di poter essere tutto per lei, fino al giorno in cui ho appreso, nel dolore, che è infinitamente più nobile non essere, per lei, assolutamente niente.

It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion

I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.

What distinguishes all love from lust is the fact that it bears an impress of eternity.

Only the one who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved.

The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in his need presses forward to God, the more perfect he is... To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breath forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God

What is the New Testament? A handbook for those who are to be sacrificed.

He who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

That in which all human life is unified is passion, and faith is a passion.

Es una eterna ley del amor, que dos seres deben sentirse nacidos uno para el otro desde el primer momento en que comenzaron a amarse

Only in the eyes of love you can find infinity.

Saints are those who managed to love more than we did.

I adore you, my greatest love, as only through you I can find my moment's eternity.

Give up your good 'Christian' life and follow Jesus

You are the woman of my heart. The one I have been awaiting the whole of my life, though I didn't know it until I spied you. there isn't one thing that makes you special to me, but all things.

The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.

I try to live a faith-filled life. I'm a believer.

I pray daily, and I pray in all kinds of places. I mean, I pray in bed, I pray in the Oval Office. I pray a lot. And just different as the spirit moves me. And faith is an integral part of my life.

Léonie, you will do well to consider. You are not the first woman in my life." She smiled through her tears. "Monseigneur, I would so much rather be the last woman than the first," she said.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.