Quotes about Devotion

The day that man forgets that love is identical with sacrifice, he will ask how a God of love could demand mortification and self-denial.

Say to yourself over and over again regardless of what happens: "God loves me!" And then add: "And I will try to love Him!

It loves the other, not because of attractiveness, or talents, or sympathy, but because of God. To the Christian, a person is one for whom I must sacrifice myself, not one who must exist for my sake.

As our Lord said, Where your treasure is, there is your heart also. Hence the least love of God is worth more than the knowledge of all created things.

The lover of God never knows the words "too much." Those who accuse others of loving God or religion too much really do not love God at all, nor do they know the meaning of love.

He has mercy on those who fear Him, from generation to generation." Fear is here understood as filial, that is, a shrinking from hurting one who is loved. Such is the fear a son has for a devoted father and the fear a Christian has of Christ. Fear is here related to love.

These four effects of love are: unity, mutual indwelling, ecstasy, and zeal.

In sex the male adores the female. In love the man and woman together adore God.

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

The very fact that a man or woman seeks a new partner is a proof that there never was any love at all. For though sex is replaceable, love is not. Sex is for pleasure; love is for a person. Cows can graze on other pastures, but a person admits of no substitution.

Close to the Cross was the only Apostle present, John, whose face was like a cast moulded out of love; Magdalen was there too, like a broken flower, a wounded thing. But foremost among all-God pity her!-was His own mother. Mary, Magdalen, John; innocence, penitence, and priesthood; the three types of souls forever to be found beneath the Cross of Christ.

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more.