#devotion

I know I'm a bad bargain. But I'm begging you to have me anyway. Because I want a chance to make you as happy as you make me. I want to build a life with you." He fought to steady his voice. "Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#devotion #hathaways #leo #love #life

I understand our mornings can be busy; however, if we cannot make time for God now, then when? ↗

— Ashley Ormon

#devotional #god #morning #prayer #business

I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching. Love, Dimitri ↗

— Richelle Mead

#dimitri #love #rosemarie #spirit-bound #love

Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears. ↗

— Pauline Réage

#cruelty #dark #faith #god #love

We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement ... ↗

— Calvin Miller

#devotion #faith #hope #faith

A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#devotional-classics #hard-times #inspirational-quotes #inspirational

The devout life does not solely entail living as a monk or ascetic, though that is fine. The devout life requires bringing God into all things. ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#devotion #jesus #life

We are crucified to the world, and the world must be as crucified to us. It esteems us as fools, let us esteem it as mad. ↗

— Saint Francis De Sales De Sales

#devotional #life

Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; ↗