Quotes about Devotion

I love him better than myself, Ellen; and I know it by this: I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be: that proves I love him better than myself.' 'Good words,' I replied.  'But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

Be with me always, Take any form, Drive me mad, only don't leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you

Every Linton on the face of the Earth could melt into nothing before I'd agree to give up Heathcliff.

he's the only person I have to love in the world. But you, Heathcliff, have no one to love you, and nobody to cry for you when you die!

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.  Nelly, I am Heathcliff!  He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.  So don't talk of our separation again: it is impracticable; and—

For if we had any sense, what else should we do, both in public and in private, than sing hymns and praise the deity, and recount all the favours that he has conferred!

And yet, while there is only the one thing we can care for and devote ourselves to, we choose instead to care about and attach ourselves to a score of others: to our bodies, to our property, to our family, friends and slaves. [15] And, being attached to many things, we are weighed down and dragged along with them.

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

He who labours, prays.

As a Christian, I try to meditate or pray at least once a day, however briefly.