Quotes About Devotion

Oh for holiness! Oh for more of God in my soul! Oh this pleasing pain! It makes my soul press after God

I had been heaping up my devotions before God, fasting, praying, &c. pretending, and indeed really thinking sometimes, that I was aiming at the glory of God; whereas I never once truly intended it, but only my own happiness. I

Oh, how sweet it is to be spent and worn out for God!

Oh that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

Alas, that so much of my precious time is spent with so little of God.

Oh, how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness when, if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!

My soul is disconsolate when God is withdrawn.

I longed to spend and be spent for God.

My soul was this day, at turns, sweetly set on God. I longed to be with Him that I might behold His glory. I felt sweetly disposed to commit all to Him, even my dearest friends, my dearest flock, my absent brother, and all my concerns for time and eternity. Oh, that His kingdom might come in the world; that they might all love and glorify Him, for what He is in Himself; and that the blessed Redeemer might 'see the travail of his soul, and be satisfied! Oh, come, Lord Jesus, come quickly! Amen.

In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister:

For man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.

When the Bible is viewed primarily as a collection of devotional thoughts, its status as the most devastating work of social criticism in history is forgotten.

Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.

Anywhere the devout gather to worship, there will always be a parade.

When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.

He was alone in the world, and the world was Natalie. Usually

Although prey to the dictates of physical desire, he remained no less a romantic man, believing that the realm of women could be shrunk to one woman.

Il faut avoir peur de perdre les choses pour les aimer passionnément.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child — or a healthy adult.

DO what you LOVE what you DO !

I'm not so concerned as to whether God is on my side or not, but I am concerned as to whether I'm on God's side or not.

A pet is something to love, a dog particularly. He loves you without opinion or judgment, he does not speak to you indignantly, he does not confuse your affections with foolish ideas and odd perspectives; he merely loves. I sometimes think of how easy it was for my father to favor you, Cassius.

Love always involves not just saying yes to someone but also saying no to self. The life of love is a life of death to the kingdom of self.

Every one of her foxey ways was now so absolutely precious to him that I believe that if he had known for certain she was dead, and had thoughts of marrying a second time, he would never have been happy with a woman. No, indeed, he would have been more tempted to get himself a tame fox, and would have counted that as good a marriage as he could make.