Quotes About Devotion

A God-intoxicated man.

Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven't even begun to live.

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best; His state Is kingly; thousands at His bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest - They also serve who only stand and wait.

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love their cow-for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort.

To them that ask, where have you seen the Gods, or how do you know for certain there are Gods, that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.

Oh, if everyone knew how beautiful Jesus is, how amiable He is! Fhey would all die from love.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.

A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness.

The Father most tender, Father of all, my immense God-I His atom.

God is no enemy to you. He asks no more than that He hear you call Him "Friend."

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself.

True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Hatred seems to operate on the same glands as love; it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?

Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.

A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.