Quotes About Devotion

Those, and those only, shall find God to their comfort, who seek him with all their heart, that is, who are entirely devoted to him, earnestly desirous of his favour and solicitous to obtain it.

It is a great affront to God to jest with sacred things, particularly to make sport with the word and ordinances of God, or to treat them with lightness

All that minister about holy things must have an eye to God's command as their rule and warrant;

If God is jealous herein, we should be so, afraid of offering any worship to God otherwise than as he has appointed in his word.

Holy love knits the hearts of Christians one to another; and faith and love both contribute to our comfort.

Those who would be wise and knowing must make application to Christ.

Those that truly love God will make it their constant care and endeavour to keep his commandments, particularly those that relate to his worship. Those that love God, and keep those

When we are to attend upon God in solemn ordinances it concerns us to sanctify ourselves, and to get ready beforehand.

so we must not come to worship God empty-hearted; our souls must be filled with grace, with pious and devout affections, holy desires towards him, and dedications of ourselves to him, for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.

prayer-time must be kept up as duly as meat-time.

We are apt to show our trouble too much to ourselves, aggravating it, and poring upon it, which does us no service, whereas by showing it to God we might cast the care upon him who careth for us, and thereby ease ourselves. Nor should we allow of any complaint to ourselves or others which we cannot with due decency and sincerity of devotion make to God, and stand to before him.

All that are to be employed for God are to be sanctified to him.

Every thing we honour the holy God with must be pure and carefully kept from all pollution.

Men of business ought to be devout men, and not to think that business will excuse them from that which is every man's great business – to keep up communion with God.

The glorifying of God's name, as it ought to be our first petition (it is so in the Lord's prayer), so it ought to be our great plea

The foundation of Christian practice must be laid in Christian knowledge and faith.

When Christ by his Spirit draws us we must with our spirits run after him.

It is Christ living in the soul by faith that makes the body a living sacrifice

If God be not sanctified and glorified by us, he will be sanctified and glorified upon us.

What is a holy moment? A holy moment is a moment when you make yourself completely available to God. You set self-interest aside, you set aside what you want to do or feel like doing, and for that moment you do exactly what you sense God is calling you to do.

This is the will of God: that you be saints." (1 Thessalonians 4:3)

You have been told what is good and what Yahweh wants of you. Only this, that you live justly, love tenderly, and walk humbly with your God." (Micah 6:8)

What prevents you from surrendering yourself completely to God?

Living holy lives is the goal of the Christian life and our essential purpose.