Quotes about Devotion
For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.
- Gordon Hinckley
We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.
- Herman Melville
You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.
- Isabel Allende
Love is the life of friendship.
- James Howell
Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.
- Jerry Bridges
To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.
- John Donne
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.
- John Donne
Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
- John Milton
True love lasts forever.
- Joseph Wirthlin
But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
- Julian of Norwich