#adoration

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. ↗

— Martin Luther

#adoration #christian #christian life #father #gather

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#cannot #care #did #even #go

These memories descend out of nowhere, giving me pieces of who I was, but their significance is lost. I sigh and resume my walk, not knowing if this memory is important, or just more of the jumbled trivia of Jenna's life, like sock shopping. Maybe that is all any life is composed of, trivia that eventually adds up to a person, and maybe I just don't have enough of it yet to be a whole one. ↗

— Mary E. Pearson

#life

Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace. ↗

— A. Powell Davies

#life #meaning #peace #reverence #life

You are the one star I wish upon nightly; praying your glory will fall from the heavens and land in my undeserving arms.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#heaven #love #lovers #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#love

We all romanticize the people we adore. ↗

— John Green

#love #romance #love

Prove that you love me through a lingering gaze, and never losing that twinkle of adoration in your eyes. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#adoration #love #lovers #richelle #richelle-goodrich

My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you. ↗

— Stephanie Laurens

#dream #longing #love #need #romance

...Why did just my eyes adore you - Have you ever wondered that? well, as Hegel said, “Too fair to worship, too divine to love.”... ↗

— John Geddes

#hegel #love #love