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“But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“She wished him to owe his recovery to her alone—to her care, to her tireless devotion. That is the other side of selflessness: its tyranny.”
Margaret Atwood
,
The Blind Assassin
“You who are in power have only the means that money produces—we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.”
Alexandre Dumas
,
The Count of Monte Cristo
“Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.”
Samuel Johnson
,
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”
Honoré de Balzac
,
Letters of Two Brides
“All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.”
Jane Austen
,
Persuasion
“But when the physical appearance evades the scrutiny of our senses and enters the sanctuary of our hearts, then it can forget itself. I know, from my childhood's experience, how devotion is beauty itself, in its inner aspect.”
Rabindranath Tagore
,
The Home and the World
“On impulse he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.”
Margaret Atwood
,
The Blind Assassin
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