Quotes About Devotion

One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

God doesn't want your crises-mode promises.

I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.

When a relationship is right, it is no more possible to wake up and want out of the marriage than it is to wake up and stop believing in God. What is, is what is.

When I'm anywhere, I'm going to show God that I'm thankful just for life. I'm living out my dream. This is what I want to do.

Jesus' call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.

The yoga of love is for those who want an all-consuming relationship with their teacher. They see the teacher as an extension of God, of eternity - which all of us are.

All that he has ever asked of us, of me, and Spinnock Durav, and so many others, he has given us in return. Each and every time. This... this is his secret. Don't you understand, High Priestess? We served the one who served us.

If you find someone who fills your heart, fills in all the cracks and stops all the leaking, to the Abyss with station

My evening star. If the sun burned out tomorrow, your flame would light the world.

There was a smudge of motion in the grasses, about twenty paces distant. "That dog. Hood knows what it's up to." [...] 'Your beast is wandering out there'. 'I know. Every night. As if looking for something. I think it might be ... Coltaine. Looking for Coltaine. And it breaks my heart, sir.

You have ever been my favourite,' he said, looking away. 'Your favourite what?' 'High Priestess, of course. What else might I be thinking?' 'Well, that is the eternal question, isn't it?' 'One too many people spend too much time worrying about.' 'You cannot be serious, Anomander.

Just remember, Henar, I don't do this for just anybody!' 'Do what?' She stepped forward, blades lifting. 'Dance.

Is there a difference between spilled blood and blood squeezed out slowly, excruciatingly, over the course of a foreshortened lifetime of stress, misery, anguish and despair – all in the name of some amorphous god that no-one dares call holy? Even as they bend knee and repeat the litany of sacred duty?

Steven Erikson

tonsure—and wearing a dark blue

But exaltation of humanity in no way justifies unchecked devotion at the expense of others who inhabit our world and perhaps worlds beyond.

We do not merely add Jesus Christ to our lives and continue in the same direction. Following Christ means we stop, turn around, and pursue Him.

If you please God, it does not matter whom you displease. And if you displease Him, it does not matter whom you please.

You cannot have Christ for your Savior unless you also have Him as your Lord.

To believe was to commit to something in their hearts without wavering. It went to the very core of their being, the source of all decisions and behavior. To believe in one's heart was to have a whole new nature—one

Then the man said, 'Lord, I believe,' and he worshiped him" (verses 35–38). The man fell to his knees and began to publicly worship Jesus! He could have been stoned to death on the spot—but he didn't care! His heart responded to the Savior's words with a full belief and total commitment to Jesus as God's anointed one. Without concern that he might die on the same day he had received his sight, he worshiped Jesus.

Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.

Reader, I'd marry her.