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Quotes About Devotion

When you have a desperate love for God,' Father Micheal would say, 'the comforts of this world feel like paper flowers. They are easily put aside. If you really have God's love.
~ Ted Dekker
You humans are lovers, yes? So you have this awful tendency to reject Him who first loved you and follow after intoxicating sense. Evil is a jealous lover who will try to destroy what it cannot posses.
~ Ted Dekker
My sweetest daughter," he whispered, "in whom I see no fault, know the depths of love. A love that knows no fear. A love that formed you and named you and gave you to me. A blessing beyond my understanding." His fingers trembled. "Eli is the gift I bring you. Hear him. Keep him safe. He knows the way out of this great deception.
~ Ted Dekker
I never intended to hurt your feelings, my love," Sylous said as he drew his fingers along her cheek and back behind her ear. Rose inhaled desire as he traced the outline of her face. Her heart beat out of rhythm. Her skin tingled. Awe of Sylous had quickly turned to love long ago. He was her truest companion, the one she dreamed of and longed for. Next to God, Sylous had become her everything.
~ Ted Dekker
Everything I do is for you and this safe haven you've built for me," Sylous said. "Do you doubt that?
~ Ted Dekker
What is love?
~ Ted Dekker
On the other hand, Alvin was looking for the perfect daughter who would love him with complete devotion, the way he loved himself. Unable to find such a daughter, he'd killed all of the girls, satisfied that he was at least punishing the fathers.
~ Ted Dekker
it. My wife is the jewel of the desert, the light that guides my heart through the darkness when I grow tired of waiting for the end.
~ Ted Dekker
Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!
~ Tennessee Williams
The name of a person you love is more than language.
~ Tennessee Williams
Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love..
~ Tennessee Williams
William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. In the time of your life--live! That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
~ Tennessee Williams
He loved her. He didn't know how it had happened, only that it was true. It wasn't just that she was convenient. There had been lots of convenient women. Sophie was different. She made him laugh. She made him want to make her laugh. And when he was with her
~ Julia Quinn
No man fell so blindingly into love that he no longer held a preference for his tea. This was England, for heaven's sake. More to the point, this was tea
~ Julia Quinn
Antes de conocerte, sólo estaba vivo a medias. De repente, «ahora» significa felicidad, alegría y una mujer a la que adoro. Pero ¿sabes una cosa?. «Ahora» no tiene comparación con mañana. Y mañana no podrá competir con el día siguiente. Tal y como me siento en este momento, mañana va a ser mucho mejor. ¡Ah! Daff, cada día voy a quererte más, te lo prometo. Cada día…" - Simon Bassett
~ Julia Quinn
He wanted Sarah Pleinsworth; dear Lord, he wanted her with everything that he was. He wanted to stand up with her before God and man, slide his ring onto her finger, and pledge his eternal devotion. He wanted to take her to bed and with his body show her everything that was in his heart, and he wanted to cherish her as she grew heavy with their child.
~ Julia Quinn
But if you don't," Hyacinth continued, smiling shyly, "then I'd be much obliged if you'd wait for me.
~ Julia Quinn
Tú eres la razón de mi existencia -dijo dulcemente-, el motivo de que yo haya nacido.
~ Julia Quinn
Porque te quiero, maldita sea. Porque siempre te he amado. Porque te amaba cuando estabas con John, te amaba cuando yo estaba en la India, y aunque Dios sabe que no te merezco, te amo de todos modos". - Michael Stirling.
~ Julia Quinn
Te pido que te cases conmigo porque te amo, porque no puedo imaginarme la vida sin ti. Deseo ver tu cara por la mañana, por la noche y cien veces entre medio. Deseo envejecer contigo, deseo reír contigo, y deseo suspirar ante mis amigos quejándome de lo mandona que eres, sabiendo secretamente que soy el hombre más afortunado de la ciudad". - Gareth St. Clair.
~ Julia Quinn
Eu te amo - disse ele, a voz enfim mais alta que um suspiro. Ele se virou, o coração, a própria alma nos olhos. - Eu te amo.
~ Julia Quinn
Y en aquel momento, supo que la amaba. Con cada pensamiento, con cada emoción, cada parte de su ser, le amaba.
~ Julia Quinn
It is a good thing I love you so well, ... because otherwise, I should have to fit you with a muzzle.
~ Julia Quinn
His love hadn't been a thunderbolt from the sky. It had started with a smile, a word, a teasing glance. Every second he had spent in her presence it had grown, until he's reached this moment, and he suddenly knew.
~ Julia Quinn