Quotes About Devotion

My heart quotes your love for me, not in words but in heartbeats.

Angels have no philosophy but love.

We strive to be God's worthy audience.

Your prayer can be poetry, and poetry can be your prayer.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Entreat me not to leave you Or to return from following you; For where you go I will go, And where you lodge I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God my God; Where you die I will die, And there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me And more also If even death parts me from you. --Ruth 1:16

He was more than just my husband that night. He was my hero.

As yet I didn't understand. Nor could I see the path. But I didn't need to, anymore than my sheep needed to understand my plans, or see the entire path when I took them to a pasture they had never been in before. They knew I was leading them, and that was enough. So now, all I needed to do was go where He led me, and give to Him my highest and best loyalty.

Get into a habit of literally saying out loud or quietly under your breath, "Thank You, Jesus," and say it for everything.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." (Joshua 24:14–15)

Get into the Word regularly (John 17:17).

praise is offered based on God's worthiness, not your needs,

God has commanded the sacrifice of praise, and if it doesn't cost you something, it isn't a sacrifice.

There is something about being willing to praise God that so pleases Him.

whatever we worship we eventually will wind up serving. That's because the more we worship something or someone, the more we increase our level of commitment, and the more we become like the thing we worship.

In the world's eyes I could lose everything, so I gave everything to God.

Mother Church.

Even a mama dog will protect her young to the death. What more of a mother?

Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection! It will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. It will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society, and leaving the company of creatures of its own society to be with you.

Yes, I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart.

Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.

My God, I choose everything, I will not be a Saint by halves, I am not afraid of suffering for Thee, I only fear one thing, and that is to do my own will. Accept the offering of my will, for I choose all that Thou willest.

I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifices to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.