Quotes About Devotion

So much as we see of the love of God, so much shall we delight in him, and no more.

Were our affections filled, taken up, and possessed with these things . . . what access could sin, with its painted pleasures, with its sugared poisons, with its envenomed baits, have unto our souls?

To be spiritually minded is life and peace. -- Rom. 8:6 Set your affection on things above. -- Col. 3:2

Think greatly of the greatness of God.

He that would be like unto God must be sure to love him, or all other endeavours to that purpose will be in vain; and he that loves God sincerely will be like him.

You name the name of Christ, profess an interest in him, and expect salvation by him; which way will you apply yourselves unto him?

We do it by love. Christ as crucified is the great object of our love, or should so be; for he is therein unto sinners "altogether lovely." Hence one of the ancients cried out, ? ???? ???? ??????????;—"My love is crucified, and why do I stay behind?" In the death of Christ do his love, his grace, his condescension, most gloriously shine forth.

The soul which can be satisfied without beholding the glory of Christ, is not a soul for whom Christ prays.

A truly gracious, praying frame (wherein we pray always) is utterly inconsistent with the love of or reserve for any sin. To

Whatever impeacheth the universality of obedience in one thing overthrows its sincerity in all things.

I suppose, therefore, this may be fixed on as a common principle of Christianity, namely, that constant and fervent prayer for the divine assistance of the Holy Spirit is such an indispensable means for the attaining the knowledge of the mind of God in the Scripture as that without it all others will not be available.

All great art is praise.

Membaca, berpikir, mencintai dan berdoa, hal-hal inilah yang membuat orang berbahagia.

In the purest landscape, the human subject is the immortality of the soul by the faithfulness of love.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

If you do not wish for His kingdom, don't pray for it. But if you do, you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

THE EXCHANGE KEPT LUCAS warm all the way out to the car. He'd jump off a high building before he betrayed Weather, but a little extracurricular flirtation kept the blood circulating; not that all of it went to the brain.

My core constituency will

Would it be an ideologue or a lover?

How much did you love her?" Jane asked. "Your wife. Kathy. When people are married for a long time, maybe they stay together out of habit." "Sometimes they do," I said. "But I loved her very much. All the time we were married. I love her now.

I love her more than I actually express in words—an irony for a writer—and am every day genuinely amazed I get to spend my life with her.

I saw the light go out in her eyes, but I kept telling her how much I loved her until they took her away from me at the hospital." "Why did you do that?" Jane asked. "I needed to be sure that the last thing she heard was me telling her how much I loved her," I said.

In one corner, a group of men were kneeling on a carpeted area of the bay and praying.

We all have passions.