#adoration

...I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ... ↗

— John Geddes

#beauty #love #stars #beauty

His small compliments and offhand remarks formed a new scripture, and in breathless conversations and lonely, dream-drunk nights they built whole theologies from them. ↗

— Carey Wallace

#infatuation #love #projection #dreams

I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#art #love #pottery #art

Lovers alone wear sunlight. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#love #poetry #love

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. ↗

— William Goldman

#ardor #love #love

The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#christ #deep-love #heart #love #the-love-of-christ

...I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship... ↗

— John Geddes

#fascination #love #mystery #wonder #worship

turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#male-beauty #true-love #beauty

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes... ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#beauty #poetry #beauty

The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#appreciate #cute #i #laugh #laughs