Quotes About Devotion

Woran du glaubst, dafür sollst du leben und sterben.

A book? All this for a book?

It should be considered illegal for a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ not to be burning with passion for our Lord and burning with passion for the lost.

Tell me about love when you've been with someone for years, cared for them when they're ill, put up with them when they're miserable or grumpy, taken the sharp side of their tongue and still come back. Tell me about love when you've acted quite appallingly, and the other person has still accepted you.

When the Bible speaks of love, it measures it primarily not by how much you want to receive but by how much you are willing to give of yourself to someone. How much are you willing to lose for the sake of this person? How much of your freedom are you willing to forsake? How much of your precious time, emotion, and resources are you willing to invest for this person?

The fundamental response to God's radical love for us is for us to radically love him.

Once we determine in our souls that God's glory is our goal, we then stop taking the path of least resistance and start taking the path of most glory to God

Anyone who has ever fallen hard will understand. The magic of those early days, when you are consumed by each other, when your whole body thrums in the presence of this new significant other and aches when you're apart. ~Here To Stay, Mark Edwards

her pain, Beck. She loved you enough for both her children.

God equates spiritual depth with obedience.

The only way any of us will ever thrive is if we first learn Scripture and then just take him at his Word.

Jesus is not going to come join our lives. Jesus wants to become our lives.

When worship is our response to the One who alone is worthy of it-Jesus Christ-then our lives are on their way to being turned inside out.

Ultimately, intellectual work of this sort is its own reward, because it is focused on the only One whose recognition is important, the One before whom all hearts are open.

The devout are always urged to seek the absolute truth with their hearts and not their minds.

When the fanatic is confronted with facts, statistics, history, experience, ethics, faith, or what have you, it is of no consequence. He has found his calling and he will not be dissuaded from it. Again, "the cause" is greater than all things.

I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.

If I serve you in hopes of Paradise, deny me Paradise. If I serve thee in fear of hell, condemn me to hell. But if I love thee for love of thyself, then grant me thyself.

She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila

We hang suspended in His love. When one heart moves the whole web trembles.

I suspect that on some level, life is a matter of indefensible loyalties.

Everyone loves to be loved.

We still worship what we want our lives to feel like more than we worship Jesus.

Not-so-fun-fact: If the people who work most closely with your ministry end up wanting nothing to do with Jesus, it is no longer a ministry.