Quotes about Devotion

Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

A sinning man stops praying; a praying man stops sinning.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

I'm sixteen with what I hope will be a long life ahead, but I'm willing to give it up, to give anything to let her live, to let her make it through the night.

The only way love can be shown in this world is by sacrifice —namely, the surrender of one thing for another. Love is essentially bound up with choice, and choice is a negation, and negation is a sacrifice. When a young man sets his heart upon a young woman and asks her to marry him, he is not only saying "I choose you"; he is also saying "I do not choose, I reject, all others. I give them all up for you." Apply this to the problem of lust.

And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world: And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you. She essayed to smile again and expired.

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.