Quotes About Devotion

He said that all bodily spiritual disciplines and exercises are useless. All that is needed to bring us to union with God is love. He had pondered this subject much, and concluded that the shortest way to God was to go straight to Him by a continual exercise of love and doing everything for His sake.

Artist in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power.

You will never have all the answers, Millie. You will always have to seek the Lord and trust Him with things you don't understand. But trusting Him comes easier the longer you walk with Him, the more you understand how good and faithful He is.

Dear papa, I love you so much!' she replied, twining her arms around his neck. 'I love you all the better for never letting me have my own way, but always making me obey and keep to rules.

Having a relationship with God isn't about doing the right thing, it's about loving him and learning to really understand how much he loves you

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

A dancer isn't great because of their technique...they're great because of their passion.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Although we will not be perfect parents, we can, day-by-day, learn to live out God's instructions. Some day, we can hear the Lord say to us what the master told his slave, "Well done, good and faithful servant" (Matt. 25:21).

I cast my lot in with a soldier, and where he was, was home to me.

I love you, armor, and I'm never leaving you again.

Just clients. And if anyone or anything tried to hurt them, I would rip its intestines out.

You don't need proof. You need faith.

Until he met the Lord Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus, the Apostle Paul spent his entire life being willing to have God remove all the defects of his character.

All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers..

There lies a paradox for a dedicated lover of art such as David or me: we devote a great deal of time and energy in the pursuit of art, diligently visiting museums, galleries, churches, mosques, temples and ruins where it is to be found. But of course much of what we look at was made for completely different reasons by pious Buddhists, Christians, Hindus and Moslems.

If you are painter it's your whole existence. It's not an activity

The Prophet also spoke of the supreme degree insofar as it can be reached during life on earth, and this saying is one of those which are called Holy traditions because they transmit the direct words of God: "My slave ceaseth not to draw near unto Me with devotions of his free will until I love him; and when I love him I am the hearing with which he heareth and the sight with which he seeth and the hand with which he graspeth and the foot on which he walketh.

Not one of you has faith until I am dearer to him than his son and his father and all men together." But this utterance of the Prophet was not so much a demand as a confirmation of the rightness of a love that had already been given - a love which found its expression so often in the words: "May my father and my mother be thy ransom.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.