Quotes About Devotion

Gaius Valerius Catullus

O ye gods, grant me this in return for my piety.

Keeping the Gods first doesn't mean that you withdraw from life, rather it informs every aspect of the way you engage with living.

it's a structured way of engaging with the sacred. It's a container for such engagement to happen. It's a protocol by which we can maintain right relationship in our direct engagements with the sacred.

Love is the test. In the gospel of Jesus, love is everything.

Well I wrote our names a thousand times...just to see yours sitting next to mine.

I'll return your love, " she says."And I won't look at you differently. And I'll always be there to put something under your head so you don't hurt yourself.

I understood that, as a dog, I could never be as interactive with humanity as I truly desired. Yet, I realized at that moment, I could be something else. I could provide something of need to the people around me.

Love is a choice you make everyday.

Love is a verb.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." And that's when I started crying. Crying like a kindergarten kid in front of everyone. Crying because Joseph wasn't just my friend. I had his back. And he had mine. That's what greater love is.

Jupiter. I promise I'll always know where you are.

Mrs. Windemere always had a cup of hot coffee waiting for me. Black, which, she said, was the only way to drink it if you wanted to be awake to serve the god of Creativity

What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the "life of the mind": thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.

A life entirely devoted to the avoidance of wrong seldom achieves anything exceptionally right—or anything at all.

You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided." —General George S. Patton

Success demands singleness of purpose." — Vince Lombardi

I have done mostly what most men do, And pushed it out of my mind; But I can't forget, if I wanted to, Four-Feet trotting behind. Day after day, the whole day through — Wherever my road inclined — Four-Feet said, "I am coming with you!" And trotted along behind. — RUDYARD KIPLING, "Four-Feet

Heloise learned to love Abelard solely for who he was. That forbidden love brought her nothing but pain, but she would rather have shame and pain with Abelard than peace and happiness without him.

Our wives don't have to "deserve" it. A Christian husband doesn't love his wife only when she is lovable. He loves her whenever Christ deserves to be reverenced, which, of course, is always.

I no longer call you servants,…I have called you friends."14 Servants is a "doing" word; friends is a "being" word. What do servants do? They cook, clean, et cetera. A friend, however, is something you are, not something you do. A servant is Martha, a friend is Mary.

It marks prayer as the heart of our devotion, the constant awareness of God's presence, our consistent submission to his will, and our frequent expressions of adoration and praise.

I am called to love her out of reverence for God. Any other motivation is less than Christian.

The best gift you can give your spouse is to fear the God who made him or her. That's a gift that truly keeps on giving.