Adoring Quotes

#1. He's very high-handed. Do you know that yesterday he had the audacity to ask me to practice adoring looks while peering into a mirror because he felt I was glaring at him too often?

Jen Turano

#2. And while a pretty face is nice to wake up to, and adoring face is so much more rewarding.

Melissa De La Cruz

#3. Someone you haven't met yet is already dreaming of adoring you.

Danielle LaPorte

#4. In that look was such love and uncritical adoration as a god might instill into a new create. "Except, how boring at last," he thought. "To have one always, always adoring one. But perhaps gods do not get bored ...

Sheri S. Tepper

#5. Which are you? ... competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares ... ?
With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?

Seth Godin

#6. What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

Victor Hugo

#7. True worship doesn't put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn't forced, isn't half-hearted, doesn't keep looking at its watch, doesn't worry what the person in the next pew is doing. True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

N. T. Wright

#8. Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.

Evelyn Underhill

#9. So, in other words, we tore our world apart to get rid of these gods. And they were very bad gods, right?' I say, just to be clear. 'Not just messing around and having funsies with their adoring followers but truly wicked and vile?

Liz De Jager

#10. I'm gonna come, Jenna. Because of you. Make me feel so fucking good."
She moaned, adoring the desire and need straining his words. "I wanna feel it," she said.
"Oh, baby, right now," he said. His hips crashed into hers once, twice, three times more, and he cried out. "Oh, fuck, Jenna.

Laura Kaye

#11. I'm a professional Jonathan Coulton. It's partially ego, to be completely honest: It feels great to have people adoring you in that way.

Jonathan Coulton

#12. We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

Maya Angelou

#13. Sin is not merely wrong doing; sin is essentially wrong adoring. Sin is the fastening of our hearts on any good, treasure, or security in life that replaces the good, treasure, and security of God.

Tony Reinke

#14. On balance, I'd say I prefer performing in front of a few thousand adoring women, but 'Security Guard at the Castle of the Damned' comes a pretty close second. I should be fine, as long as there are no ghosts.

Tabitha McGowan

#15. Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest to God and the one most helpful to us.

Alphonsus Liguori

#16. Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

Jean Racine

#17. The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.

Mason Cooley

#18. Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

Andrew Vachss

#19. Why do you need an adoring public when you've got me? he asked.

John Green

#20. You and me? We are never going to be just friends. The only time I'm not adoring you is when I am too busy hating you and wishing to God I never met you ...

Thomm Quackenbush

#21. Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

George Bernard Shaw

#22. You two worshipful, adoring assholes created that thing down the hall and set her loose on the world.

Gillian Flynn

#23. They're the perfect loving fam'ly, so adoring ...
And I love them ev'ry day of ev'ry week.
So my son's a little shit, my husband's boring,
And my daughter, though a genius, is a freak.

Brian Yorkey

#24. A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.

Samuel Johnson

#25. If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.

John Stott

#26. I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

Bob Gunton

#27. Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God

John Eldredge

#28. Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive

Simone Weil

#29. When I thought of the ways I preferred to die, I wanted to be a hundred years old and surrounded by generations of adoring descendants. Though a hair dryer and an ill-timed fall into a tub was far more likely. I never considered deer or drunk drivers.

Molly Harper

#30. Sometimes I dream that I'm writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public.

John Green

#31. It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.

John Galsworthy

#32. It is one thing to read about being filled with the Holy Spirit and quite another thing to experience the mighty infilling of the Holy Spirit that radically changes our life to a life of adoring wonder and amazement at the things of God. Reading and experiencing are two quite different things.

A.W. Tozer

#33. Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp.

Lewis H. Lapham

#34. Let us go, then, exploring, this summer morning, when all are adoring the plum blossom and the bee.

Virginia Woolf

#35. When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring,

Alister E. McGrath

#36. I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women who would argue over what kind of pants you were wearing or the color of your nail polish.

Michael Kors

#37. Be a religion to each other. Each man has his own fashion of adoring God. Saperlotte! the best way to adore God is to love one's wife. I love thee! that's my catechism. He who loves is orthodox.

Victor Hugo

#38. Holding my hands, kissing the palms, his smile is ecstatic, jubilant, adoring, and the song playing speaks for him, Have you ever seen the light ... the way it shines in you.

Poppet

#39. When one thinks of the wondrous glory of Christ, how astonishing that He can join with us! But more, when one thinks of His bringing many sons to glory at such a cost, one is lost in adoring amazement.

George Wigram

#40. I study theology in the works of creation and find in it new reasons for adoring the creator.

Jan Potocki

#41. The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.

Rand Paul

#42. As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I.

Celia Thaxter

#43. The intellectually-inclined biographers stray from the point that the message is directed through the spoken word at the broad masses and not writing to an inbred, self-adoring intellectual elite."
--Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, pp. 30-31

Russel H.S. Stolfi

#44. Par exemple! I never had to ask. You were always there under my feet, like a troublesome cat." "You mean like an adoring dog. And just as soon as Ratignolle appeared on the scene, then it WAS like a dog. 'Passez! Adieu! Allez vous-en!

Kate Chopin

#45. I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Voltaire

#46. Behind every adoring gift there is a price.if u want d gift pay the price too

Ikechukwu Joseph

#47. You can give me 400,000 hostile people and I won't even break sweat. If you give me 200 adoring people, my mouth will dry out.

Joni Mitchell

#48. the real stars - the ones who made it all the way up to that peak where they've been granted by adoring fans an almost godlike status - have always been special in some way, blessed with dazzling gifts and/or beauty, both talented and given to hard work.

Nancy Jo Sales

#49. The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

Kate Reardon

#50. The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,
a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion.

Edgar Allan Poe

#51. I think I need to be married. Having a wife and family makes some sense out of all that I do, because I can't make any sense out of 20,000 adoring fans watching me for two hours.

Neil Diamond

#52. Love is missing the taste of someone's morning breath. Thinking they're beautiful, even when their nose is Rudolph-red and their hair is bird's nest crazy. Love isn't putting up with someone in spite of their faults
it's adoring them because of them.

Emma Chase

#53. It was a kiss that slowed down as it went, a great, long adoring kiss, Tadhg slanting his mouth first to one side, then the other, drowning her in the unyielding, unstoppable claiming of his kiss.

Kris Kennedy

#54. Noah appeared beside Blue. He looked joyful and adoring, like a Labrador retriever.

Maggie Stiefvater

#55. There is no holiness without a Christ-centered, Christ-seeking, Christ-serving, Christ-adoring heart.

J.I. Packer

#56. Eternal Spirit, our effectual Comforter, we who are the temples in which thou dwellest, will never cease from adoring and blessing the name of Jesus.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#57. We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it.

Barbara Holland

#58. The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader.

Mary Frances Berry

#59. At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

Richard Attenborough

#60. Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.

Ellen G. White

#61. Worship is adoring contemplation of God.

R.A. Torrey

#62. I guess the second-term team is not quite as adoring as the first.

Peggy Noonan

#63. First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers ...

Rosalynn Carter

#64. They just came to look, as if she were the Great Tower in Rodarred, or the Canyon of the Tulaevea. A phenomenon, a monument. They were awed, adoring. She snarled at them: Think your own thoughts!

Ursula K. Le Guin

#65. Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

Evelyn Underhill

#66. Harriet resisted, until Tara pulled out the big move ... the combination "lean-against nuzzle, with a slight lick and an adoring glance." In dog-land the move had a degree of difficulty of nine point seven, and as far as I know, there is no known defense against it.

David Rosenfelt

#67. It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it ... and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

Saint Augustine

#68. The glory of the incarnation is that it presents to our adoring gaze not a humanized God or a deified man, but a true God-man.

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield

#69. She never gave up adoring our father, but he ceased to be, for her, the larger-than-life hero I continued to make him into. For Patty, he was more like a deeply lovable spaniel who keeps peeing on the rug and chewing on the upholstery, no matter how many times you tell him not to.

Joyce Maynard

#70. I'm just wowed by the universe. I'm just glad to do something I love to do. I love color, I love painting, I love shapes, I love composition, I love the people around me. I'm adoring it all. My legacy is in the hands of other people.

Peter Max

#71. Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.

Mother Teresa

#72. I see you, I see others and I want to see you more.

Pushpa Rana