Quotes About Devotion

A disorderly spirituality that makes the practitioner dreamy, eccentric, or uncontrolled is a very bad sign indeed. In

This continues to be the case: the religion of compassion is followed only by a minority; most religious people are content with decorous worship in synagogue, church, temple and mosque.

Muhammad replied with tears in his eyes: "O my uncle, by God if they put the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left on condition that I abandon this course, until God has made it victorious, or I perish therein, I would not abandon it.

Jesus's demonstration in the temple was not, as is often assumed, a plea for a more spiritual form of worship. As he rampaged through the money changers' stalls, he quoted the Hebrew prophets who had harsh words for those who were punctilious in their devotions but ignored the plight of the poor, the vulnerable, and the oppressed.

To die for the one you loved was an effort too sweet for words.

Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips. (Psalm 141:3)

The best way I have learned over the years to be still is to dive into the pages of my Bible. Immersing myself in God's Word provides protection. It snaps my heart back to attention and helps me to run to him for rescue rather than try to fix things on my own. Psalm

You don't have to say a thing except yes. You don't have to do anything, either, I'm quite willing to plan it all. You? Yes me. You'd plan all of it? Even the wedding? Why not? You don't even like to plan your own breakfast. He grinned. You mean more to me tban bacon. More than [i]bacon?[/i] I'm honored. You should be, my foolish pea brain.

When she returned, he would take great delight in showing her how much he loved the morning, when the air held a tang of freshness and the early light dispelled all shadows.

And that was love. True love. The kind that carried on and lasted through the good days and the difficult days. The kind of love that always gave, and never hurt. It might not be the kind of mad love poets wrote about, but it was the kind of love strong enough to build a home upon, secure in the knowledge that this man would be there when things went wrong and would do everything in his considerable power to make things right again.

To you." He kissed her mouth, then nipped her lower lip lightly. "With you, for you. In you.

When someone gets you hot and bothered, turn on the prayer conditioner.

She took him for granted sometimes. That was the luxury of a long marriage. But she knew that she loved him. She needed him. He was the anchor that kept her from drifting away.

You are the reason I am alive. I would've never made it without you. Do you understand me? You are my heart. You are every ounce of blood in my body.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose/With my lost saints/I love thee with the breath/Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose/I shall but love thee better after death.

The lust and fucking like rabbits and letting your life fall to shit so you can be around him - that's passion. It's borderline obsession. And it always burns itself out.

May God keep my going out and my coming in from now on and ever more.

that was more than love. That was being in love. It was so tangible I could almost touch it with my hands. I could bite it with my teeth.

In the Credo the Church bows before that God Whom we did not seek and find—Who rather has sought and found us. Now

But be warned! The book is an inconceivably impressive sharpening of the commandment 'Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain'.

In the Credo the Church bows before that God Whom we did not seek and find—Who rather has sought and found us.

Marriage is based on a more enduring kind of love.

The eat part was easy. The praying and loving were harder.

She was tremendously fond of Ralph. Not hounded by love the way some women were. With Crighton she had been teased endlessly by the idea of it, but with Ralph it was more straightforward. Again not love, more like the feelings you would have for a favorite dog (and, no, she would never have said such a thing to him. Some people, a lot of people, didn't understand how attached one could be to a dog.)