Charles Dickens Quotes

For you, a thousand times over

Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Always' was a promise! How can you just break the promise?" "Sometimes people don't always understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?" I didn't answer. I didn't have an answer. But I thought that if true love did exist, that was a pretty good definition of it.

I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it?

Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he's close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you've sacrificed for his sake.

Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

I would like to believe every man is a one-woman man.

I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.

I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares.

For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

My owner is life and that's what I fight for.

A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I'm committed to loving you, then it's not possible for me to 'fall out of love.'

My wife said to me: 'If you won the lottery, would you still love me?' I said: 'Of course I would. I'd miss you, but I'd still love you.'

Though we may not necessarily forfeit our lives in service to our God, we can certainly demonstrate our love for Him by how well we serve Him.

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

The truth is many people see a marriage vow as the only way people are going to stay with someone who is sick.

Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.