Quotes about Devotion

When both are sincere and good, no men so penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has devoted his life to his country here below, the other to his country on high; that is the only difference.

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it.

When Cosette went out with him, she leaned on his arm, proud, happy, her heart full to overflowing. Jean

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, that is love.

Love each other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love for each other.

God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give them endless duration.

Loving is half of believing.

I have a strong will to love you for eternity.

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.

Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.

But all he could think of was what Sabina would have said about it. Everything he did, he did for Sabina, the way Sabina would have liked to see it done. It was a perfectly innocent form of infidelity and one eminently suited to Franz, who would never have done his bespectacled student-mistress any harm. He nourished the cult of Sabina more as a religion than as love

Too much faith is the worst ally