#devotion

From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #obsession #love

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours. ↗

— Jane Austen

#love #pronouncements-of-love #love

What is important is not the specific manner in which God is worshiped but the degree to which the devotee is filled with love. (48-49) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#devotion #god #love #worship #love

G: Never fear. 10 yrs from now, when you're looking at this picture, I'm going to be looking at it with you. I love you, G. ↗

— Peter Golden

#love #love

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

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. ↗

— Henry Miller

#dedicate #devotion #himself #his #lies

I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#children #devotion #drive #education #everything

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. ↗

— George Ripley

#attachment #cause #devotion #discussion #down

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#about #anything #devotion #knows #like

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church. ↗

— Edith Stein

#church #degree #devotion #elevation #gift