Adoration Quotes
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"What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst."
"He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time."
"Lovers alone wear sunlight."
"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear."
"Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches."
"She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that's best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes..."
"My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you."
"Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?"
"Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him."
"So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream."
"There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you’re my only hope of happiness. Tell me, Lillian, dearest love...how can you have reached so far inside my heart?"
"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours."
"You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever."
"I love you with everything I am, everything I've been, and everything I hope to be. I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles and even more, for every one of your smiles."
"When a man finds the woman he really loves, the one he respects and wants to call wife, there is nothing on earth he won't do for her. No mountain he won't hike. No river he won't wade. No door he won't open. She is Eve and there's not a snake crawling that can keep them apart."
"People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don’t have it, you cant give it."
"I went out to eat on a restaurant’s opening night. It was packed! I guess people heard I’d be dining there and came to adore me."
"We all romanticize the people we adore."
"The sun still lives his silent vows to the moon, by bowing to kiss her feet whenever she walks in the room."
"How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turnec the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as long as Em was with him, he was at home?"
"Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it."
"Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved."
"Never been more truthful then right now, looking at you fixes everything."
"Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory"
"Your spouse is not a possession you attain, but a friend in which you trust & adore."
"Kiss your scars. Fall in love with them. They ought to serve as life-affirming reminders—a lingering trace of hope. The only reason we have these scars is because we survived and are still here."
"Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life."
"You are theremedy of intensityi need in my life, tospin me out of themiserable monotonyof working on life'sdaily assemblylines."
"The first time I heard you laugh, I only wanted to say funny things so you would always be laughing. You know what happens to chocolate when you leave it out in the sun? I’m that unfortunate chocolate and you, you are the laughing sun. For this reason, I am offering myself to you not as a martyr or some selfless fool, but as a self-indulgent moth who actively pursues the light without much fear for the flame. The moth who revels in the heat and declares: Burn me."
"If a woman stands behind you, respect her; if she stands beside you, cherish her; if she stands with you, adore her."
"We learn to love by basking in the love of other people. We learn how to express our love and our warmest feelings whenever other people grace us with the privilege of besetting upon them many acts of kindness. We unleash a germinal of internal tenderness by affectionately doting upon pets and by generously spending time admiring the natural world."
"I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting."
"Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM."
"Big things in the glory of the world mean nothing. Small things in glory of God mean everything. Truly..., size doesn't matter in this world or in the world to come."
"Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified."
"Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God."
"Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Thee"
"If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God."
"An introspective person seeks to attain a pure state of consciousness by merging finitude in infinity and by expressing the rapture of the soul through the contemplation and adoration of beauty. In this brief interlude of time, I surrender to becoming a cog in the roadway, an insentient time traveler, a ward of eternity, a day-tripper, a nighttime dream weaver, a blip in the cosmos, a freebase glob of energy, an imaginable disk of bundled vitality that wants for nothing."
"You have the face of a man who gently caresses field flowers and dandelions. And a smile that is like a dagger, cutting the sun in halves."
"Each generation has its own dream of beauty. I have lived long enough to watch it change. Just then, he was what all sculptors were reaching after, and only the great achieved."
"I have concluded that the more we seek the Lord, with a passion for His worthiness, the more we are gripped with our neediness. Adoration cultivates desperation."
"I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand."
"Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, but worship is the greatest form of adoration."
"The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history."
"When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them."
"May we continue to workship God, with wholehearted devotion."
"God is magnificent. God is mighty."
"You’ll probably fall in & out of love at least a dozen times…the wrong way…to love THAT ONE…the right way…YOU!"
"...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words..."
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