True Devotion Quotes

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that you love a country is by seeing everything that it's done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it's beautiful and that it's worthy.

Nobody wants somebody who wants them for what they have or the position their in- you want somebody who wants you for you. In case it all goes crazy and it all turns to dust. I want somebody who loves me in the welfare line, eating gumbo, eating fish,black eyed peas and rice. I want somebody that loves me. God wants you to love him, not his cars, not his house, not his blessing- love him.

Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

I want God, not my idea of God.

My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true.

Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts.

... uncritical love is the only real treasure.

A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. Now, God's altar stands from Sunday to Sunday, and the seventh day is no more for religion than any other. It is for rest. The whole seven are for religion, and one of them for rest.

God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.