Quotes About Devotion

Since we affirm that God is love, then the heart must be the throne of God.

Since you have accepted the gift of a Friend, you must be ready to do anything for His sake.

The beauty of religion is to explore the heart and thus, to put feelings into practice.

The only known promised land is that of two lovers who are deeply longing for each other.

To love with all your heart is forcing yourself to go beyond the physical attributes and focus on something much bigger.

True love cannot exist when the mind is allowed to wander and explore other options.

Wealth can still bring you much closer to your Creator. Since you will have plenty of time to worship and relax, instead of sweating just to create daily cash flow.

You must sacrifice pleasure in order to obtain the highest pleasure bestowed from your Creator.

You should meditate and dedicate your entire life to the Creator.

Your spirit or attitude must be fearless in enjoying every part of worship and the companionship with the Creator.

Time spent in prayer is not time wasted but time invested.

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart" (Jeremiah 24:7).

Purpose is the raw material for your prayer life.

Prayer should not be open-ended. It should be purpose-driven, motivated by a knowledge of God's ways and intentions.

I feel about John ['s gospel] like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her. (Following Jesus, p. 27.)

Saul of Tarsus, in other words, had found a new vocation. It would demand all the energy, all the zeal, that he had devoted to his former way of life. He was now to be a herald of the king.

In a sense, learning to follow Jesus is simply learning to pray the Lord's Prayer.

Now love doesn't stop at death - or if it does, it's a pretty poor sort of love! In fact, grief could almost be defined as the form love takes when the object of love has been removed; it is love embracing an empty space, love kissing thin air and feeling the pain of nothingness. But there is no reason at all why love should discontinue the practice of holding the beloved in prayer before God.

you become like what you worship;

When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image of God. One of the primary laws of human life is that you become like what you worship; what's more, you reflect what you worship not only back to the object itself but also outward to the world around.

Holiness is multidimensional.

is simply a reminder of what the greatest systematic theologians have always known and recognized – that theology is a matter of loving God with our minds and that loving does not mean merely admiring or 'being intellectually interested in'.

Though we sing with the tongues of men and of angels, if we are not truly worshipping the living God, we are noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. Though we organize the liturgy most beautifully, if it does not enable us to worship the living God, we are mere ballet-dancers. Though we repave the floor and reface the stonework, though we balance our budgets and attract all the tourists, if we are not worshipping God, we are nothing.

the word the early Christians used for "faith" can also mean "loyalty" or "allegiance.