Quotes About Devotion

Like most things that were good or bad for you, you reach a stage where what started as a happy habit turns into something of an obsession.

When you have a child, you are never number one again. Someone is more important than you. It changes your worldview. It has to.

Love blinds, yes, bit not nearly as much as wanting to be loved.

Also not surprising: He had fallen hard for Laszlo. He loved those walks, especially the one where he'd come through the door at the end of the day and Laszlo would greet him like a released POW on a tarmac—every day, without fail—and she'd drag him enthusiastically to the park as though she'd never been there before.

Myron remained unconvinced. "Even if I agreed to go along with this cockamamy scheme, what about nights? You expect me to watch her twenty-four hours a day?" "Of course not. Win will help you there." "Win has better things to do." "Tell that goy boy-toy it's for me," Norm said. "He loves me." A

Corny, yes, but there you go. Purity. That was what hit you when you get lost looking at your own child—a purity that could be derived only from true, unconditional love. He loved Ryan so damned much.

The separation deepened our commitment and gave our love a new distance-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder dimension. Nauseating

Part of all worship is abuse. That's what I've learned. Those who love God the most also fear God the most too. 'God-fearing,' right?

An old dog traipsed into the room on rigid legs. It looked like he was trying to wag his tail, but the result was a pitiful sway. He managed to lick Myron's hand with a dry tongue.

American Religionists, when I questioned them, frequently said that falling in love was affirming again Christ's love for each of them.

We discovered in that depressing, hellish place, where death was our constant companion, that we loved each other. We killed for each other, we died for each other, and we wept for each other. And in time we came to love each other as brothers.

Commit to the Lord what you cannot change or understand.

Let God Be God

Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.

It seems to me, that love could be labeled poison and we'd drink it anyways.

Love's the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly, but it's a you-do or you-don't proposition with them all.

Love's the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love certainly, but it's a you do or you don't proposition with them all.

That her son had developed all the latent characteristics of a three-dollar bill escaped her notice—all she knew was that she was glad he lived in Birmingham because he was oppressively devoted to her, which meant that she felt obliged to make an effort to reciprocate, which she could not with any spontaneity do.

Dill was in hearty agreement with this plan of action. Dill was becoming something of a trail anyways, following Jem about... He only grew closer to Jem. (Lee 55)

I do my best to love everyday

In the name of God, believe him.

Love's the only thing in this world that is unequivocal.

Honey, the sun rises and sets with that Bill of hers. Everything he says is Gospel. She loves her man. Is that what loving your man is? Has a lot to do with it. Jean Louise said, You mean losing your own identity, don't you? In a way, yes, said Henry. Then I doubt if I shall ever marry.

don't we all know that good work is rarely performed by people who don't care to do it?