Quotes About Devotion

Which of them would sit six hours on a wet hillside to hear a godly sermon?

the wife who could be contented with but one half of her husband's affections, had never deserved to engage the slightest share of them.

One's true religion is what one cares about most.

Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. PSALM 37:4

If we keep God at the center of our lives and put our hope and trust in Him, the love and happiness we feel today will only grow stronger.

Real loves means a yielding of the heart to another person. It means commitment, loyalty, and trust.

The bedrock challenge for directors, nevertheless, remains constant: Find and retain a talented CEO — possessing integrity, for sure — who will be devoted to the company for his/her business lifetime. Often, that task is hard. When directors get it right, though, they need to do little else. But when they mess it up, . . . . . .

I know nothing about you except that I want to move through the world with you for as long as you'll let me.

life. You gave up on the book and the job and the money to save my life. I could fall in love with you." I've

How many of us dare not use our time or money or talents as we would, because we realise they are the Lord's, not ours?

God's ways with us are all designed to establish in us this other principle, namely, that our work for Him springs out of our ministering to Him. I do not mean that we are going to do nothing; but the first thing for us must be the Lord Himself, not His work.

How much in our prayers is self completely forgotten and the will of the Lord is alone the thing that is sought?

She is doing this for Me. Real satisfaction is brought to the heart of God only when we are really, as people would think, wasting ourselves upon him. It seems as though we are giving too much and getting nothing—and that is the secret of pleasing God.

The whole question is; How precious is he to us now? If we do not think much of him, then of course to give him anything at all, however small will seem to us a wicked waste. But when he is really precious to our souls nothing will be too good, nothing too costly for him; everything we have, our dearest, our most priceless treasure, we shall pour out upon him, and we shall not count it a shame to have done so.

Cuando sienta una carga por orar, eso indica que hay algún asunto en la voluntad de Dios que requiere su oración.

Tan sólo la obediencia honra completamente a Dios, pues solamente ella toma a Dios como su centro.

Unless the believer offers his soul life to death, he shall cultivate that life, incur the displeasure of God, and miss the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

Søren Kierkegaard, the famed Danish theologian, once put it, "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

You who seek God, apart, apart The thing you seek, thou art, thou art. If you want to seek the Beloved's face. Polish the mirror, gaze into that space. These words were written by Rumi as a tribute for his master guru Shams of Tabriz.

Kahlil Gibran, the spiritual Lebanese poet, once advised that "if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Love those you're entrusted to lead, just as the sun loves our planet. Simply be there to serve, never demanding anything in return.

To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.

A Bible falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't.

the story of a father's love for his children, and the love they gave in return.