#devotion

I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#study #theology #theology

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not. ↗

— Jane Austen

#devotion

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#devotion

That's my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that's where my home is. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#devotion

Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic? ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#prayer #devotion

I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source. ↗

— Doris Day

#devotion

I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-s-letter-to-clary #devotion

Yeah, cause that would be a smart choice. So, I should just forget about the whole lying to me thing when you pronounce you will never do it again?” “Yes.” “You’d have a better chance getting a donkey to shit gold.” From Witch Devotions. Coming out 2012! ↗

— Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

#romance #snarky-quotes #the-last-witch-series #vampire #vampyre-kisses

As lost as I get, I will find you, Heather. Always" - Dante ↗

— Adrian Phoenix

#urban-fantasy #devotion

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#detail #devotion #finds #involves #minute