Quotes About Devotion

I know I have no right to ask for exclusiveness beyond that point, but until then, I want to know that no other man is on your mind, in your heart or a part of your soul. When I make love to you, I want you to be mine in every way a woman can belong to a man.

Marriage can't be successful if the man doesn't love the woman more. The woman is the one who holds a marriage together, who works at it day after day, but she can't do it if the man is not fully, completely committed.

DeWarenne men love forever

If I say I will protect you, I will." ~Alexi de Warenne to Elysse O'Neill

You deny it all you want, but you are mine. Call it passion, call it obsession, call it whatever pleases you, but you run hot and wild in my blood, Katherine-I cannot give you up.

He is in love with you. I read the fucking letters. And you love him. Damn you! Damn you to hell, Elysse!" he roared, towering over the foot of the bed. "You are supposed to love me!" -Alexis de Warenne

I have always loved Elle. I love her now even more deeply than before, as the woman I wish to share my life with." ~Sean O'Neill

I might die, Quinn, but my love for you never will.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second something to reverence." —George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans, English novelist, 1819–1880)

Would I dance with you? Both forever and rather die. / It would be like dying, yes. Yes I would.

They cannot understand that the figure of a laborer— some furrows in a plowed field, a bit of sand, sea and sky— are serious objects, so difficult but at the same time so beautiful, that it is indeed worth while to devote one's life to the task of expressing the poetry hidden in them.

But here is an important thing: you must practice not perfunctorily, but with all your intelligence and love,

Do you believe that the God of Jesus loves you beyond worthiness and unworthiness, beyond fidelity and infidelity—that he loves you in the morning sun and in the evening rain—that he loves you when your intellect denies it, your emotions refuse it, your whole being rejects it. Do you believe that God loves without condition or reservation and loves you this moment as you are and not as you should be.

I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

For His love is never, never, never based on our performance, never conditioned by our moods—of elation or depression. The furious love of God knows no shadow of alteration or change. It is reliable. And always tender. So

One thing we do know: We don't comprehend the love of Jesus Christ.

Faith means believing that I am Yours and You are mine, that I am who You say I am: Your beloved, fearfully and wonderfully accepted.

May all that I know apart from You be nothing more than a chance traveling companion on the journey toward You.

discipleship, or the following of Christ, was not simply the most important thing in life—it was the only thing.

What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness.

My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.

Over a hundred years ago in the Deep South, a phrase commonplace in our Christian culture today, born again, was seldom used. Rather, the words used to describe the breakthrough into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ were: "I was seized by the power of a great affection.

The furious love of God knows no shadow of alteration or change. It is reliable. And always tender.

When we give anything more priority than we give to God, we commit idolatry. Thus we all commit idolatry countless times every day.