Quotes About Devotion

Wherever he was, I was with him now. I had given him my word to say nothing, and the longer I kept his secret, the less I belonged to myself.

His master was a man with the heart of a dog. He was a rambler, a rough-and-ready soldier of fortune, a one-of-a-kind two-leg who improvised the rules as he went along. They

Si me dijeran que tengo que estar mirándote las veinticuatro horas del día durante el resto de mi vida, no pondría objeción alguna.

Willy's sidekick was a hodgepodge of genetic strains – part collie, part Labrador, part spaniel, part canine puzzle – and to make matters worse, there were burrs protruding from his ragged coat, bad smells emanating from his mouth, and a perpetual bloodshot sadness lurking in his eyes.

Ministering to the Lord in private is the foundation and prerequisite for leading in the public meeting.

Semper Fi, Semper Funky

Most couples have songs they call their own. We had books. Authors. Artists. Silent movies.

Saint John of the Cross gave the following advice: "Enter into your heart and labour in the presence of God who is always present there to help you. Fix your loving attention upon Him without any desire to feel or hear anything of God.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

The devotional spirit is not less intense among, the pagans of the prairie than it was among the ancient Israelites and the early Christians.[128]

It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's youthful ideals. When a man has loved literature as I loved it at twenty, he cannot be satisfied at twenty-six to give up his early passion, even at the bidding of implacable necessity.

Eat, sleep & Breathe your business to ensure it's success

Human beings by their very nature are worshipers. Worship is not something we do; it defines who we are. You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.

Even the most regular, seemingly unimportant tasks of my life must be shaped and directed by a heartfelt desire for the glory of God.

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the purpose of Another.

It is vital to know that faith is not just an action of your brain; it's an investment of your life.

The question is not if we worship, but what we give our hearts to worship.

Joyful, perseverant obedience only ever grows in the soil of worship.

The spiritual reality for many of us is that the one thing is not the Lord. And the danger in that reality is this: your one thing will control your heart, and whatever controls your heart will exercise inescapable influence over your words, choices, and actions. Your one thing will become that which shapes and directs your responses to the situations and relationships of your daily life. If the Lord isn't your one thing, the thing that is your one thing will be your functional lord.

Grace doesn't make it okay for you to live for you. No, grace frees you to experience the joy of living for One greater than you.

Spiritual adultery occurs when I give the love that belongs to God alone to something or someone else.

Prayer always forsakes the kingdom of self for the kingdom of God,

We're all spiritually promiscuous, running from lover to lover, giving the loyalty of our hearts to things other than God.

What will you hook your heart to today in the hope that it will give you life?