491 Quotes About Devotion

Do you think he would have wanted you to commit suttee?”“What is that?”“A Hindu practice in which a widow is expected to throw herself on her husband’s burning funeral pyre. Her suicide is considered as proof of her devotion to him.”“What if the wife dies first? Does the husband do the same thing?”Shaw threw her a mildly taunting grin. “No, he re-marries.”“I should have known,” Livia said. “Men always manage to arrange things for their own benefit.

Our ultimate devotion is to be a reflection of a divine work that is continuously unfolding in our hearts.

Identity! For this one word, great people devoted their life with appropriate actions.

Our sacred future depends on what we dedicate ourselves to becoming.

What moved me was the theme of the harmony which is born only of sacrifice, the twofold experience of love. It's not a question of mutual love: what nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment, it is nothing.

God is about love. But it is a perfect, pure love. There must be some justice in that. Order. We’re supposed to do right, not wrong. Like you said, we are made bad, Ray. And that is why it is so important to be good. At all times. Being good requires sacrifice. People can’t just do what they want all the time, occasionally do some nice things for others on their own terms, call themselves loving, and still join God in heaven. You don’t get to make up the rules.

The child in us remains. It lives in our weaknesses. It lives in our trust. It lives in our desire to hold another’s hand. It lives in our devotion to something more than ourselves.

I thought for a minute you were going to start a war for me.”Christian held the door open. “You’ll know when that day comes.

Do not think of this as the end. Think of this as the beginning of eternity together . I have always loved you, I will always love you. Heaven will not stand between us and Hell hath no fury that can burn bright enough to keep me from you.