Quotes About Devotion

Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business ?

I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.

While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.

And I figured you'd drive a four-hour round-trip before giving up your car to someone else

Her feeling for Mr Brooks was so much the most important part of her life that it seemed like something which did not belong to her, but which she had to carry about with her, at work or in her room, there was no difference. She had a kind of affection, too, for the love itself, which was so strong, but maintained itself on so little. There had been a time, not at all long ago, when she hadn't had this responsibility, but it was hard for her to remember how she had felt then.

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Matt knew only that he must see her again, and forever.

Christ loves mothers and is drawn to their tears, words, and prayers. After all, He lived in the house, ate her cooking, saw her clean His clothes and His room, and knew she was blessed above all women.

No animal has a heart quite like a dog's

Thus, we find phrases such as the following in Washington's public and private writings: "A Christian Spirit," "A True Christian," "Be more of a man and a Christian," "Christian soldiers," "The little Christian," "To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian." 32

Perhaps if I had been able to put things in plain language, it might have been plain that things between us were so damnably unequal, that I loved her as I would never love anyone else and that she loved me as a young woman might love a devoted brother, a trusted bodyguard, or a horse that never stumbles, never shies, but takes all fences willingly, and carries her safely across.

Vacío, tú eres mi verdad, mi bienamado eres.»

One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world.

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.

We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the greatest joy of which his beloved creature is capable.

Love suffers far more for the pains of the beloved than for its own pains.

Your heart may be paltry compared with the heart of a great saint, but your heart is what God wants from you.

You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.

But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a road to holiness.

If I did not love you more today than I did yesterday, I would love you less, and that is intolerable. So I must find more ways to love you every day.

It's the most essential thing of all just because it's not a matter of how you do it at all, but of whether you do it. Like being born, or cooking: how you do it is less important than whether you do it. You can find thousands of books on prayer that give you methods of praying, hundreds of hows; but they do you no good at all unless you actually pray. Otherwise it's like reading a cookbook instead of cooking. You can't eat a cookbook!

ora et labora, prayer and work.

God loves us more than we love Him.