#devotion

Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid, and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease! ↗

— W.E.B. Du Bois

#devotion #disease #poverty #youth #intelligence

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

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. ↗

— Jeffrey McDaniel

#fidelity #love #obsession #love

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition. ↗

— Robert Frost

#love #poetry #love

If the sum of living be love's fee, Tremble. You are my one eternity. ↗

— Laura Benet

#emotion #love #philosophy #love

How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion! ↗

— Susan Sontag

#pretense #self-love #selflessness #love

The heart-knot is full of the darkness of ignorance, and it is illusory. When this knot snaps and opens, consciousness, like the sky, surges undividedly, leading to a clear and enduring peace in which the Self shines forth in the Heart. Only the love for the Self that springs forth in the Heart is the true devotion that is full of auspiciousness. ↗

— Muruganar

#vedanta #love

... your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me... ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#fury #love #madness #love

The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels. ↗

— Beth Moore

#love #marriage #love