Quotes About Devotion

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

I want you now so awfully, No longer jealous-green, I bring myself as offering Up to the guillotine.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

The Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, said: Whosoever expands his knowledge without a parallel increase in his piety will only have grown in his separation from Allah.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.

What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.

Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I've lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit's vision, Gazing on the Crucified.

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.

If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in his presence.

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.

If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.

The reason some of us are such poor specimens of Christianity is because we have no Almighty Christ. We have Christian attributes and experiences, but there is no abandonment to Jesus Christ.

You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to "clear the numberless ascensions"* in about two minutes.

God is not preparing you for anything; obedience is its own end in the purpose of God; be faithful to Him.

The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.

A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently a sentimentalist is usually callous, self-centred and selfish, because the emotions he likes to have stirred do not cost him anything.

The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain

We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff of life, and this is where we have to prove our mettle. A false Christianity takes us up on the mount and we want to stay there. But what about the devil-possessed world? Oh, let it go to hell! We are having a great time up here.

As Christians we are not here for our own purpose at all—we are here for the purpose of God, and the two are not the same.

Discipleship is based not on devotion to abstract ideals, but on devotion to a person, the Lord Jesus Christ;