Quotes About Devotion

Disliking someone is almost as big a commitment as loving someone, and it carries none of the benefits.

The covenant we make with ourselves is to love ourselves: to center in the devotion to sacred experience, honoring our bodies as temples of spirit, our emotions as reflections of spirit, our aspiration as the adoration of spirit for spirit.

You are my only accomplishment.

El amor no era racional, no podía serlo nunca. El amor hundía sus raíces no en el poder de la mente, sino en el poder del corazón.

Sin dolor no podría existir un amor tan intenso y tan apasionado.

I know my husband. He died with God's name on his lips if anybody's. He always loved his work more than me. (Kate) Then he was a fool, the captain said with such bitterness that she felt sorry for him, too. No. He was not a fool, she said. And he loved me. I know he did. He just belonged to God. I only borrowed him for a time. (p.383)

Yeah, well. You're my best friend, you know, and I love you.

You should never mistake affection for … passion

When you love a book it loves you back.

The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together I'll burn alone.

Being able to know and feel what Karl knows and feels… that no matter what, I am God's, and God is mine… that we have a connection; we have a relationship. Faith in your life brings God in your life.

all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins"?17

A man may fight the greatest enemy, take the longest journey, survive the most grievous wound -- and still be helpless in the hands of the woman he loves.

Loyalty is a clear-cut matter only for those with simple minds and no imagination. —GENERAL AGAMEMNON, New Memoirs

Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt.

Ask a child's guardians what it takes to be good at their jobs, and most will answer with a single word... SACRIFICE. Parents give up so much: time, sleep, freedom, money, intimacy... pretty much everything but complaining how much they sacrifice.

You never know when or where your first addiction might find you…but there's a chamber of your heart that will have been waiting for it since the day you were born

She loved to return to the world of the book, a workd in which people were willing to let go of everything in order to follow their passions.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of GOD. For my part I keep myself retired with Him in the depth of centre of my soul as much as I can; and while I am so with Him I fear nothing; but the least turning from Him is insupportable.

Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.

Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.

Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please GOD, that perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity

That there needed neither art nor science for going to GOD, but only a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, or for His sake, and to love Him only.