Quotes about Devotion

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.

Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.

But all he could think of was what Sabina would have said about it. Everything he did, he did for Sabina, the way Sabina would have liked to see it done. It was a perfectly innocent form of infidelity and one eminently suited to Franz, who would never have done his bespectacled student-mistress any harm. He nourished the cult of Sabina more as a religion than as love

Too much faith is the worst ally

That is the secret of poetry. We burn in the woman we adore, we burn in the thought we espouse, we burn in the landscape that moves us

Everything he did, he did for Sabina, the way Sabina would have liked to see it done.

Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.

I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little. And you can trust them.

The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.

You are loved by the One who knows you best. God's love will never disappoint you and never give up on you.

God wanted us to choose to love him.

Sacrifice is the essence of love, which is the essence of God.