Quotes About Devotion

I cannot say for sure when my reliable ideas about God began to slip away, but the big chest I used to keep them in is smaller than a shoebox now. Most of the time, I feel so ashamed about this that I do not own up to it unless someone else mentions it first. Then we find a quiet place where we can talk about what it is like to feel more and more devoted to a relationship that we are less and less able to say anything about.

As much as I admire the brilliance of the Jewish Talmud—especially the way it hallows sacred debate across the centuries—I cannot have it. It belongs to those in whose lifeblood it was written. As much as my soul leans toward the whirling of the Sufis who bring heaven to earth with their ethereal spinning, I cannot have that either. It belongs to those who have devoted their lives to the love of Allah.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.

the Sunshine and Shadow design. The Amish A Devoted Christian's Prayer Book contained the prayer, "We pray, O Holy Father, that we might leave behind the night of sin and guilt and ever walk in the shining light of Thy wondrous grace, and cast off the works of darkness, put on the armor of light, and walk honestly as in the day.

When a man loves as i love you,that love takes everything else from him.If i cannot have you,if you send me away,I shall then be only the empty shell of what i am now.I love you,i worship you, and i cannot go on through life without you!

The best saints swear fluently.

When I fall in love, it will be for always. Nothing will change that. No one will walk out. We will stay together forever, and when death finally separates us we will have the memories that we shared. He will be that kind of person. I will know him instantly when I finally meet him. And he will love me forever.

receptacle of all virtues. Many excellent qualities flow from the possession of this light: a paternal love toward the subjects; a large heart; a daily increasing trust in God; prayer and devotion. He must see that no injustice is done within his realm.

To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.

In a very short time, I have come to realize that a mother will do almost anything - lie, cheat, even steal - for the sake of her child.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Love's greatest gift is its' ability to make everything it touches sacred....

Unconditional love. In that instant, I felt a sharp craving for it, and there was one place I knew I would find it in spades.

She's my mother. I'm not sure you get the same kind of unconditional love in your life from anyone but a mother.

poured himself into his work

she'd run away, she'd always given him everything

What I can promise is this -- I'll never lie to you, betray you, or walk away from you.

Wo ist das Ende der Liebe? Obwohl ich darauf noch nie eine Antwort wusste, sage ich mit einer Stimme, die ohne mein Wissen spricht: Dummkopf, die Liebe hat kein Ende!

She and Mud were calves then. They were so devoted to each other that they walked with Date Bed grasping Mud's tail, and they said 'we' instead of 'I'--'we are tired,' 'we want,' 'we can't'--as if they were a single calf. When She-Screams slapped Mud, it was Date Bed who squealed

We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal.

Every single time I confess my self-reliance and submit my life to God's will in a particular area, I am worshiping God--as surely as any sincere Israelite offering a lamb in obedience to God's plan.

We are guilty of idolatry every time we think about God in any way other than the way Scripture portrays Him.