Quotes about Devotion
Trust and trust alone should lead us to love
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Love is the beauty of the soul.
— St. Augustine
Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.
— St. Augustine
And it is good for a man not to touch a woman. And, he that is unmarried thinketh of the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but he that is married careth for the things of this world, how he may please his wife.
— St. Augustine
Why, therefore, except through foolishness and miserable error, shouldst thou humble thyself to worship a being to whom thou desirest to be unlike in thy life? And why shouldst thou pay religious homage to him whom thou art unwilling to imitate, when it is the highest duty of religion to imitate Him whom thou worshippest?
— St. Augustine
Christ is not valued at all unless He be valued above all.
— St. Augustine
He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
— St. Augustine
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
— St. Augustine
What has the Church done to thee, that thou shouldst wish to decapitate her? Thou wouldst take away her Head, and believe in the Head alone, despising the body. Vain is thy service, and false thy devotion to the Head. For to sever it from the body is an injury to both Head and body.
— St. Augustine
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.
— St. Augustine
He who sings prays twice.
— St. Augustine
The true measure of loving God is to love Him without measure.
— Bernard of Clairvaux