Quotes About Devotion

Only a passion for God's glory can overpower our self-interest. Submission is simply being empty of self, and this is the key to enduring relationships.

Logic isn't as important as my love for you. I shouldn't love you, but I do. I don't seem to ahve a choice. He said the words with conviction. And then he gathered his woman close to his heart. I love you, Alara. Even when I didn't want to love you, I couldn't help myself. I've loved you for a long time. And I always will

Marry me, Gracie. Marry me and let me take care of you. Let me love you and prove it each and every day.

He tucked her hair behind her ears and kissed her. I love you Gracie Landon, he said quietly.

Montana, he said, dragging her against him. Montana, I'm so sorry. I was wrong. What I said, how I treated you. He drew back so he could see her face. I love you. I have from the first. You're the best part of me. You are the light to my dark and without you, I'm blind. I'll give you anything, if only you'll stay with me.

I'm a forever kind of guy, he murmured, right before he kissed her. That's how long I want.

She thought about how she felt when she was around him and how he'd always been the best man she'd ever known. She thought about his kindness and thoughtfulness, how he made her laugh and how she knew, when something bad happened, that he would be there. She thought about how she wanted to take care of him and be there for him, so he would know, no matter what, that she had his back.

We'll find home with each other, Shaye. For the rest of our lives. That's my promise to you. For always.

He'd explained that he'd loved her mother so much that just being in the same room with her, not doing anything special, was better than the most exciting party with anyone else. At the time she hadn't understood his point, but suddenly it all made sense.

You know enough of me to believe me when I say I am not going anywhere. Not without you. You stay, I stay. You're not a fling, Amelia. For me, you are the reason to stop running.

He knows that kind of love. It is what he feels for Gallicina. It is the world reformed, made new, each time the lover sees the beloved's face. It is the miracle which makes the cosmos dance, which keeps the planets in their courses, which fuels the fire of the stars. It is salvation.

she was not able or willing to devote herself to just one other person. She was always going to be tied not only to a husband but to bonds of duty and friendship with many others.

Being in Love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous

How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!

I have such strong tendencies to abandon myself to someone with whom I'm in love—to want to give up everything, to be possessed totally as well as to possess totally.

This girl, when she became a woman, would risk all, sacrifice all, overlook and endure all in order to be one with her beloved.

Now he knew . . . that there was nothing so vital as paying attention, and perfecting the humble offices of love.

That I was, in fact, indifferent to my husband's indiscretions testified, to me foremost, that our love was of a tepid paleness.

If a person loves something above all else, if he values the work of his heart and hands, then he should naturally, without hesitation, pour into it his whole soul, undivided and pure. Great art demands nothing less.

I had always held the notion that if two people love the same thing, they must love each other as well, but now the memories of that love had been tarnished by betrayal.

The thrill of falling in love is often the thrill of being loved; the thrill of marriage is the thrill of loving someone for the rest of your life. Each day - and year - that passes is a triumph of this act of loving.

You're right. I have no heart because I lost it to you.

Passion for a pursuit was the best feeling.