Quotes About Devotion

Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God.

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live.

Jesus, I live for Thee, I labor for Thee, I desire only Thee. Thou in me and I in Thee; Thou with me and I with Thee; Thou all mine and I all Thine.

God alone and the desire of His glory - nothing else matters.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.

You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.

I desire only Him and to be wholly His.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

The Lord filled me with desire, and made me feel that I must be as much with Him alone as with souls in public.

The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me

A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

To pray in the name of Christ is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose minid is the mind of Christ, whose desires are the desires of Christ, and whose purpose is one with that of Christ.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.

The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.