Quotes about Devotion

Oh, you dear good father! cried Mary, putting her hands round her father's neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world! Nonsense, child; you'll think your husband better. Impossible, said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone; husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

Even much stronger mortals than Fred Vincy hold half their rectitude in the mind of the being they love best.

In their death they were not divided.

Was never true love loved in vain, For truest love is highest gain.

he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man's pre-eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

have been little disposed to gather flowers that would wither in my hand, but now I shall pluck them with eagerness, to place them in your bosom.

Let us bind love with duty; for duty is the love of law; and law is the nature of the Eternal.' So we bound ourselves.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

And remember that I am unchangeably yours: yours - not with selfish wishes - but with a devotion that excludes such wishes.

There's Jeremy Taylor's 'Holy Living and Dying' among 'em. I read

Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.