Quotes About Devotion

rendered next to it." From the time they had married

Marriage suddenly didn't seem like enough to safeguard what she meant to me. Why wasn't there something more binding than a mere piece of paper that gave me the right to call her my wife? Vows were a promise, but what I needed was a guarantee that every day of my life would have her in it. I wanted my heart to beat in rhythm with hers and stop when hers did. Inextricably entwined

I want to keep feeling the way I feel when I'm with you. Just tell me what I have to do. And

You're the only thing I've ever wanted just for me. Selfishly.

I pay other people a generous salary so i can be with you.

I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will.

With that strange knowing that comes over me, like a clairvoyance, I know that I am sure of myself and my enormous and alarmingly timeless love for you; which will always be.

Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses.

I went to the bronze boy whom I love, partly because no one really cares for him

For, I am committed to you

well, anyhow, this is what I was meant to make for a man, and to give him this colossal reservoir of faith and love for him to swim in daily

I give and give; my whole life will be a saying of poems and a loving of people and giving of my best fiber to them.

Christianity is 'A condition of complete simplify (Costing not less than everything.)' Four Quartets

You are not here to verify, instruct yourself, or inform curiosity or carry report. You are here to kneel where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more than an order of words, the conscious occupation of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying.

A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)

A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident.

Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

TO MY WIFE To whom I owe the leaping delight That quickens my senses in our wakingtime And the rhythm that governs the repose of our sleepingtime, The breathing in unison Of lovers … Who think the same thoughts without need of speech And babble the same speech without need of meaning: To you I dedicate this book, to return as best I can With words a little part of what you have given me. The words mean what they say, but some have a further meaning For you and me only.

Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

You are here to kneel.

I have saved this afternoon for you.

A martyr is, he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, not lost it but found it, for he has found freedom in submission to God. The martyr no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of martyrdom.

You have to care for the animal you sacrifice; you have to love it. Why should you offer Allah a sacrifice that means nothing to you?

Because love does not do sums, but instead make choices, and then gives its all.