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he's the only person I have to love in the world. But you, Heathcliff, have no one to love you, and nobody to cry for you when you die!
— Emily Bronte
My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.  Nelly, I am Heathcliff!  He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.  So don't talk of our separation again: it is impracticable; and—
— Emily Bronte
For if we had any sense, what else should we do, both in public and in private, than sing hymns and praise the deity, and recount all the favours that he has conferred!
— Epictetus
And yet, while there is only the one thing we can care for and devote ourselves to, we choose instead to care about and attach ourselves to a score of others: to our bodies, to our property, to our family, friends and slaves. [15] And, being attached to many things, we are weighed down and dragged along with them.
— Epictetus
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
— Ambrose of Milan
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
— Andrew Jackson
However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.
— Charles Spurgeon
He who labours, prays.
— St. Augustine
As a Christian, I try to meditate or pray at least once a day, however briefly.
— Jay Parini
If you don't have much passion, well, get on your face and pray for the passion and get into the word of God. That's what I've been sharing. That's the whole concept.
— Jeremy Camp
Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.
— Joseph Wirthlin
I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.
— Billy Graham