Quotes About Devotion

Cause what good is this freedom, if I ain't free to love you?

I want to go with the one I love. I do not want to calculate the cost. I do not want to think about whether it's good. I do not want to know whether he loves me. I want to go with whom I love...

He says he'd like to kiss the ground you walk on-reminds me, did you wash them yesterday?- and after that you're his skivvy.

Your being contains mine; now I am truly part of you. Together as one, we form an unbroken circle of love.

The warmest feelings of Christendom cluster round the Crucifix, and he, the crucified one, is adored with passionate devotion, not as martyr for truth, not as witness for God, not as faithful to death, but as the substitute for his worshippers, as he who bears in their stead the wrath of God, and the punishment due to sin.

For he who is love is God; he whose whole being is love is the image of the Supreme; in himself he reproduces the divinity, for Love is God and God is Love.

Laura knew the price of motherhood to be pain and responsibility; the reward, love and pride.

The other said sternly that marriage was not the fulfillment of a passion,—marriage was the fulfillment of love. And love was sometimes pleasure and sometimes duty.

Love travels long miles.

She gazed up at his face, ran her fingers along his unshaven cheeks. "I missed you." He pulled her into his arms. She relaxed into him and let him hold her. She could feel the rhythm of his heart and pressed her lips against the soft cotton T-shirt that covered his chest. "I missed you," she whispered again. He stepped back for a moment, holding her at arm's length. "I missed you, too.

You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you.

Maybe all that matters is that they love each other, still, the way people who have known each other will always love each other.

When fighting on behalf of someone you love, the fight must end, the love must be the art of being present.

I think that marriage, a long marriage, cannot allow itself to grow old. I think that love is anything but indifference.

True intimacy with God always brings humility.

If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.

Worship is focus.

Your role during the prayer of consecration is crucial, helping the mass appear reverent and planned. Match the presider as he crosses himself and when he bows. Learn the liturgical style of your clergy so you will follow each one seamlessly; their practices vary.

I love you, Reynard Boulton," she said, gazing into his eyes. "I promise to love you with all my heart and to stay by you and encourage and strengthen you... to be truthful and faithful and kind to you, to always think the best of you... and to share my hopes and decisions and joys with you, in good times and in bad. I will be your compass, your helpmate, your defender, and the keeper of your heart. I will love you as long as there is breath in my body... and beyond even that.

When you really love someone, you think about him all the time. No matter where you are or what you're doing, he never completely leaves your thoughts. When you're apart, you want to be with him. When you're together, you're conscious of every move he makes, every word he says, and every breath he takes. Just the sight of him makes your heart rae and your mouth go dry. And when he touches you, the rest of the world disappears.

Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.

Longevity can't be the only test of love.

Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love.

She had been the quiet, rather plain girl, with a surprisingly sharp tongue if she was put out, lovely eyes and pretty hair and a way of looking very directly at one. Now he had to admit that she had become more important to him than anyone else in the world. The idea of a future without her wasn't to be borne. She had by some mysterious metamorphosis become more beautiful than anyone else he had ever encountered.