Quotes About Devotion

If you compare the written prayers from the psalms, the Lord's Prayer, or those we find in the prayer books of the church, one thing will immediately strike any reader: The prayers from those sources are theologically rich and aesthetically appropriate. I cannot always say this of the spontaneous prayers of many Christians—and I am not impugning their motives or questioning their hearts.

The first principle of spiritual formation is this: A spiritually formed person loves God and others.

Cuanto más materialmente inexplicables resultan la propia devoción y compromiso por una causa sagrada -es decir, cuanto más absurdas son-, mayor es la fe que otros depositan en ella y más compromiso genera esta fe por parte de ellos.

I want to do this job and I'll give it my heart and soul.

Orange fluff ball, Rocky is an 18-pound marvel of love, so fluffy, he looks like he's 26 pounds. He scares the local dogs just by sitting and staring at them. Rocky's there for me when I get home, purrs when he wants to, leads me to the food bowl when he needs to, licks me in an attempt to heal my wounds, loves cellophane, red ribbons, left over chicken. Rocky, my best friend, is my orange fluff ball, and I wish I could share him with the world.

Christianity in my youth wasn't just the right choice; it was the only choice.

Love is something worth suffering for...

I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There's powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.

Jean ... you are a greater friend than I ever could have imagined before I met you; I owe you my life too many times over to count. I would rather be dead myself than lose you. Not just because you're all I have left.

Our patron has always sort of danced upon the notion that austerity and piety go hand in hand; down here, we show our appreciation for things by appreciating, if you get me.

I am through fucking around. Maybe this is going to complicate the hell out of things. So what? You're the complication I want more than anything else. You're my favorite complication. No matter what sort of holes you poke in my trust.

These are my cards on the table. I think you're beautiful. I feel like I'm an idiot with dirt on his face sitting next to someone out of a painting. I think...I think I'm just plain stupid for you. I know that's not exactly sweet talk out of a play. Frankly, I'd kiss your shadow. I'd kiss dirt that had your heel print on it. I like feeling this way. I don't give a damn what you or anyone else thinks...this is how it feels every time I look at you.

You manage to survive me in my poorer moods.' 'Ah,' said Jean, 'but when a woman has your heart, she doesn't have poor moods. Only interesting moods . . . and more interesting moods.

Can a body love something so much that her heart aches with the loving?

It wouldn't be heaven without a dog, would it?

I married the kind of girl who can love somebody forever.

Although "making love" may serve as a polite name for an act that has many rude ones, it's misleading. For lovers do not so much make love as they are remade by love--dipped into the fire, melted down, reshaped. If they are devoted to one another, love will transform them, dissolving the shells of their old separate selves and making them anew.

That was what it meant to be loved--there were people who would never give up looking and longing for you, no matter how far you wandered lost.

To be devoted to the Chicago Cubs is to carry a torch of love that defies comparison.

I knew from the start that I loved her and knew, as well, that I would never fall back from that love, never try, never want to.

You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.

I made it clear to the world that what Jade and I had found in each other was more real than any other world, more real than time, more real than death, more real, even, than she and I.

On a ship that's made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you.)

knew from the start that I loved her and knew, as well, that I would never fall back from that love, never try, never want to.