Quotes About Devotion

Above all sing spiritually. Have an eye to God in every word you sing. Aim at pleasing Him more than yourself, or any other creature. In order to do this attend strictly to the sense of what you sing, and see that your heart is not carried away with the sound, but offered to God continually; so shall your singing be such as the Lord will approve here, and reward you when he cometh in the clouds of heaven.

Let me daily grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Get on fire for God, and people will come to watch you burn!"-John Wesley

To care not for one's self is of little moment, but to care not for those whom one has loved is another matter.

Innocent of fashion or custom, they came to their studies as Stoner had dreamed that a student might—as if those studies were life itself and not specific means to specific ends.

It's love, Mr. Stoner," Sloane said cheerfully. "You are in love. It's as simple as that.

Suddenly Sloane seemed very distant, and the walls of the office receded. Stoner felt himself suspended in the wide air, and he heard his voice ask, "Are you sure?" "I'm sure," Sloane said softly. "How can you tell? How can you be sure?" "It's love, Mr. Stoner," Sloane said cheerfully. "You are in love. It's as simple as that.

We call our selves followers but we refuse to follow him to the Unreached. We call ourselves Christians but refuse to lay down our life as he did that they might have life. We sing songs for him with our lips but deny him with our lives

He wondered how many other people were lucky enough to have an entire universe of need satisfied by one blond-haired man.

Perhaps what should make you feel better is the thought I would kill you, that I'm obsessed with you enough to do that. I'd rather you not live than that you live apart from me.

The most important is that you come back." Nikolas nodded. "I can't live without a heart. Of course I'll come back".

The more he saw of this life the more he realised he just wanted what he'd always wanted: Nikolas bloody Mikkelsen.

Nikolas was his Morning Star and nothing Nikolas now said or did could lessen the brilliance of his fallen grace.

Today, I no longer try to be good; instead, I am only concerned with doing God's bidding. What He commands, I do. Now my personal life is more conformed to His righteousness and character than it used to be. Following His commands does not leave much time for sin.

Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling

You can't stand for Jesus without a Christ-like spirit.

Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.

Being only out of sight, you remember, not lost, nor asleep, nor annihilated, he goes on loving. To love must mean to think of, to care for, to hope for, to pray for, not less out of a body than it.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

I cannot think why you love me,' he said, as all lovers say; but with more anxiety in his voice than is usual. 'Oh, I am nothing without you,' she said. 'I should not know what to be. I feel as if you had invented me. I watch you inventing me, week after week

Sé que nunca me harías esperar, a menos que tuvieras una buena razón para hacerlo. Te esperaría pacientemente, para que pudiéramos disfrutar el resto de la velada. –No, la pregunta no se refiere solo a mí –dijo él–. Puede ser cualquier otra persona. –No hay otra persona –dijo ella–. No se me ocurre nadie más.

You have only to hear my heartbeat to know that each beat is for you.

Queenie was devoted to careless name-dropping, scattering the details of her privileged upbringing without the faintest hint of modesty or embarrassment (though, after a while Maddie began to realize she only did it with people she liked or people she detested--those who didn't mind and those she didn't care about--anyone in between, or who might have been offended, she was more cautious with).

I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.