Imelda Marcos Quotes

I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.

God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God.

I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

I'm not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I've found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency. I went before Him and said, 'I'm not neutral, and you can do with me what you want. If you need my vote-it's there. I don't care what you do with me and you don't have to take anything from me because I give it to you-everything. All I own. All I am.' And THAT has made all the difference.

He who comes to take the love of God can have no taste for the love of the world.

In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.

Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

A devotee has no agenda of his own. For him, the object of devotion is everything.

Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.

The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals.

We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.

Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.

Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

If the life we live in this world is wholly for Christ, it is a life of daily surrender.

Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.

Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

Love is the only prayer I know.