Do you know any quotes relating love to religion? "Worship at your feet" kind of vibe, ya know?
— Hozier, “From Eden”
“I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion – I have shudder’d at it – I shudder no more – I could be martyr’d for my Religion – Love is my religion – I could die for that – I could die for you.”
— John Keats, in a letter to Fanny Brawne
“What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff’s miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.—My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary… I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”
— Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
“I’m a sorcerer, my love’s like incense…. / I’m a sorcerer, my love’s a fire, an altar, an ember. / I turn into smoke.”
— Adonis, “Transformations of the Lover”
“Thou art not luminousYet an altar of jewels,An altar of shimmering jewels,Would pale in the lightOf that darkness,Pale in the lightOf thy nightness.”
— Langston Hughes, “Poem (To the Black Beloved)”
“My church offers no absolutes / She tells me “Worship in the bedroom” / The only Heaven I’ll be sent to / Is when I’m alone with you.”
— Hozier, “Take Me to Church”
“Imagine yourself a sun pyramid draped in green vines. Let me climb your steps and worship the brilliant, blinding sky from above the treeline.
Tell me, what names have been whispered at your altar? What language would you like me to use when I whisper yours?”
— Kerry Banazek, “As an Experiment”
— Jeff Buckley, “Lover, You Should Have Come Over” (selected lines)
“I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell.To die upon the hand I love so well.”
— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“Forget Eden.We’re not going back.Adam and EveHad no regrets.“Good riddance,”She said.“So we were fed.He treated us like animals.Adam, I love you.”“I love you, too,”He said.“Nothing beats breadBaked with your sweat.”Forget Eden.We’re not going back.”
— Reesom Haile, “No Regrets”
“There, in the sulk of her bottom lip, I find myself talking about a heaven that only exists when she is looking at me.”
— Azra Tabassum, “Take Me to Church” ( @5000letters )
“I don’t know how to become one with you.If you’re heaven, then tell me.I will kneel to every god.If you’re hell, then tell me.I will fill the earth with sin.”
— Abdulla Pashew, “Union
“When I was kissin’ on my baby / And she’d put her love down, soft and sweet / In the low lamp light I was free / Heaven and Hell were words to me.”
— Hozier, “Work Song”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
“It’s you, it’s you, it’s all for you / Everything I do / I tell you all the time / Heaven is a place on Earth with you / Tell me all the things you wanna do…/ They say that the world was built for two.”
— Lana Del Rey, “Video Games”
“Tell her you feel most religious when she’s sitting naked in a chair.Tell her religion is all you need. “
— Kimberley Grey, “How to Keep the One You Love”
“Your kiss is honey and your touch scorches like fire, and I worship it.”
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
— Hozier, “Take Me to Church”
“A cathedral, him pressing againstme, his lips at my neck, and yes, I do believehis mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over melike stars.”
— Richard Siken, “Saying Your Names”
“They can hold against meNo sin except my love for youCome to meDon’t go away
Let the zealots thinkLoving is sinfulNever mindLet me burn in the hellfireOf that sin.”
— Mihri Hatun, “At One Glance”
— Hozier, “Sunlight”
