Quotes About Devotion

He who does not believe God's promises—will never love him.

We pray most fervently when we pray most feelingly.

Love is such a grace as we know not how to be without. A soldier may as well be without his weapons, an artist without his pencil, a musician without his instrument, as a Christian can be without love.

What is it to glorify God? Glorifying God consists in four things: 1. Appreciation, 2. Adoration, 3. Affection, 4. Subjection. This is the yearly rent we pay to the crown of heaven.

What is the duty which God requireth of man? Obedience to his revealed will. It is not enough to hear God's voice, but we must obey. Obedience is a part of the honour we owe to God.

Christians are condemned who profess to own God for their God and yet do not live as if he were their God.

He who loves money is not weary of telling it: and he who loves God is not weary of serving him.

He that leaves off prayer leaves off to fear God.

Three wishes Paul had, and they were all about Christ; that he might be found in Christ, be with Christ, and magnify Christ.

Some complain they find no benefit by the word preached; perhaps they did not pray for their minister as they should.

The God whom we worship is holy, the work we are employed in is holy, the place we hope to arrive at is holy; all this calls for holiness.

Do they think the tree of blessing will drop its fruit into their mouth when they never shook it by prayer? God does not set His mercies at so low a rate as to cast them away upon those who do not seek them, Ezekiel 36:37.

Many people think it is enough to bring their bodies to the assembly, but never look at their hearts. They satisfy themselves that they have been at church, though they have not been with God there.

Indeed faith deals with invisibles, but God hates that love which is invisible.

Can the spouse be better than in her husband's company? Where can the soul be better than in drawing near to God?

A godly man is on the mount of prayer every day. He begins the day with prayer. Before he opens his shop—he opens his heart to God! We burn sweet incense in our houses; a godly man's house is "a house of incense"; he airs it with the incense of prayer. He engages in no business without seeking God. A godly man consults God in everything; he asks God's permission and his blessing.

To seem to be zealous, if it be not according to the word, is not obedience, but will-worship.

Let us show ourselves godly by being more spiritual in duty. It is not the quantity, but the quality which God is concerned with. It is not how much we do but how well.

is a command of God to pray without ceasing, 1 Thess. 5:17. The meaning is—not that we should be always praying—but that we should every day set some time apart for prayer.

Love is an industrious affection; it sets the head studying for God, hands working, feet running in the ways of his commandments.

It is more honour to serve God, than to have kings serve us.

A soul encompassed with mercy is zealously active in God's service.

To sweat in some duties of religion, and freeze in others is the symptom of a disordered Christian.

God would have us part with nothing for Him, but that which will damn us if we keep it.