#devotion

...don't think love is just an emotion - I am dangerous and you know it because I will do anything you ask me to do... ↗

— John Geddes

#emotion #love #love

I love you Hyung-nim. Always...if you ever feel the need to rip me to shreds and eat me, do it. My blood, my flesh, everything is yours. I won't leave you. I love you Hyung-nim. ↗

— Hajin Yoo

#love #love

True Spirituality is not a matter of indoctrination. It cannot be inspired by compulsion. You are free to en-quire into its principles; you must be convinced of their truth, before you accept them ↗

— Dada J P Vaswani

#inspirational

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. ↗

— William Law

#alone #christianity #conforming #devotion #enjoyments

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

— Oscar Wilde

#anything #devotion #knows #like #man

I have a lifelong devotion to public service. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#i #lifelong #public #public service #service

There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare. To her sublime trustfulness he was all that goodness could be—knew all that a guide, philosopher, and friend should know. She thought every line in the contour of his person the perfection of masculine beauty, his soul the soul of a saint, his intellect that of a seer. The wisdom of her love for him, as love, sustained her dignity; she seemed to be wearing a crown. The compassion of his love for her, as she saw it, made her lift up her heart to him in devotion. He would sometimes catch her large, worshipful eyes, that had no bottom to them looking at him from their depths, as if she saw something immortal before her. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#dignity #love #beauty

How I adore you, Marya. How well I chose. Scold me; deny me. Tell me you want what you want and damn me forever. But don’t leave me. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#death #devotion #leaving #love #death

To think I need a gun to protect against those who'd kill me for being Muslim ... It's too bad they don't know about my true religion of noodling - a reason to get their nuts in a snit. ↗

— Manil Suri

#faith #faith

The Bible is teh means through which we are introduced to Jesus and invited to follow Him in the life of humility and service. Secured by the knowledge that in Christ, our origin... and destination is God, we will yield the fruit of service to God. This is the "so what" of our Bible reading. Does it shape our spirits in love and humility? Does it lead us more fully into life with God? (Life with God, p. 34-35) ↗

— Richard Foster

#devotions #disciplines #life-with-god #spiritual-formation #life