Quotes About Devotion

The ultimate blessing that God can confer on a man is the possession of a good and pious wife.

God doesn't test us because he enjoys it. He tests us to find out whether we love him above all things.

The Epistle to the Galatians is my epistle. To it I am as it were in wedlock. It is my Katherine.

But whoever wants to call upon God, regardless of where he may be in the world, must turn His face heavenward to Christ and thus come to God through Christ, the real and true temple. For Christ is the proper mercy seat (Rom 3:25), with whom sheer mercy, love, and kindness are found. But whoever seeks God apart from Christ will find the God described by Moses as 'a devouring fire' (Deut. 4:24).

The love of God does not find, but creates, that which is pleasing to it.

Christ also said, "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" (Matthew 6:21). We pursue what we love. We talk about it because that is where our hearts and thoughts are. Augustine came right to the point when he said: "Whatever I love is my god.

God alone can create and preserve faith in us. God creates faith in us through the Word. He increases, strengthens and confirms faith in us through His word. Hence the best service that anybody can render God is diligently to hear and read God's Word.

To turn one's eyes away from Jesus means to turn them to the Law.

We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.

It may not look like much, not with all these other distractions, but we make things holy by the kind of attention we give them.

We've become too song focused, and in truth I believe that we need to be more worship focused. We've lost the ability to push aside the songs and replace them with twenty-five minutes of crying out, opening our hearts and heads with the raw worship of God who's within us.

Only one thing yet remains, that we should unite our prayer to His—or rather, should implore Him to make it one with His. For this union will render it so powerful that no other prayers can compare with it.

a wonderful feeling being married, and having her

There are many types of love,

You looked after your child, no matter who had fathered it, and no matter how much you might hate them deep down inside. A child was there for the duration of your life and, if you were really lucky, they buried you, and not vice versa. A mother would give her own heart to ensure the child she had created would live on, would be happy to do so. Would be loved.

But she wanted her mother to know that she did love her. All day, every day, she loved her.

Papa loves you with a dying and infernal love," the youngest girl said. "Undying," the eldest girl corrected. "And eternal.

I take my pet lion to church every Sunday. He has to eat.

To know the game is great, to play the game is greater, but to love the game is the greatest of them all.

Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.

The world is filled with too many of us who are inclined to indicate our love with an announcement or declaration. True love is a process. True love requires personal action. Love must be continuing to be real. Love takes time.

Certainly the best way for us to show our love…is by taking the time to prove it hour by hour and day by day. Our expressions of love and comfort are empty if our actions don't match.