#devotion

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#jealousy #love #possessiveness #jealousy

I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#love #promise #love

In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#love #love

How far should a person go in the name of true love? ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #self-sacrifice #true-love #love

With my last breath, I’ll exhale my love for you. I hope it’s a cold day, so you can see what you meant to me.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cold #commitment #devotion #dying #exhale

You’re the one thing I want the most in the world yet the one thing I cannot have. Because to have you completely would be impossible. You can’t go where I walk. ↗

— Abbi Glines

#devotion #impossible #love #love

You are the reality. The sense of of worship, love, devotion and loyalty. You are the purpose of life and existence. That is why I am still alive. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#devotion #existence #love #loyalty #purpose

Every organized religion holds that certain behaviors, rituals, personalities, places, and/or books are sacred. These organized teachings are proper in their own place, but they are mere options for the one infused with devotion. To such a one, God is direct and spontaneous, providing him with an immediate source of guidance and direction. His relationship with God is not mediated through anyone or anything. (104) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#devotion #god #personality #religion #rituals

The one great advantage of Bhakti is that it is the easiest and most natural way to reach the great divine end in view; it's great disadvantage is that in its lower forms it oftentimes degenerates into hideous fanaticism. The fanatical crew in Hinduism, Mohammedanism, or Christianity, have always been almost exclusively recruited from these worshippers [sic] on the lower planes of Bhakti. That singleness of attachment (Nishthâ) to a loved object, without which no genuine love can grow, is very often also the cause of the denunciation of everything else. All the weak and undeveloped minds in every religion or country have only one way of loving their own ideal, i.e., by hating every other ideal. Herein is the explanation of why the same man who is so lovingly attached to his own ideal of God, so devoted to his own ideal of religion, becomes a howling fanatic as soon as he sees or hears anything of any other ideal. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#devotion #fanaticism #hate #love #love

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

#devotional #god #gracious #hand #his