Quotes About Devotion

For I loved all things with intense devotion;

I think one is always in love with something or other

bond of sympathy between him and Jock,

True love, to whom my heart is prey, How dost thou hold me in thy sway, That in each day I find no fault But daily wait for love's assault.

If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it." – LUKE 9:23-24

We must cut through the veils and enter worship in spirit and truth.

But if you read about, talk about, and brag about Jesus, then Jesus will show up.

The best bit of advice I ever received about how to pray was this: keep it simple, keep it real, keep it up.

The best way to start praying, therefore, is actually to stop praying. To pause. To be still. To put down your prayer list and surrender your own personal agenda. To stop talking at God long enough to focus on the wonder of who he actually is. To 'be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him'.

Archbishop Justin Welby says, the Lord's Prayer is 'simple enough to be memorised by small children, and yet profound enough to sustain a whole lifetime of prayer'.6

Put salt in our mouths that we may thirst for you.' Amen. (Prayer of St Augustine)

Zinzendorf. . .asked God to remind him of Christ's suffering whenever he might be inclined to wander away from his first love.

what if the call to pray is a call to bleed as well as to receive blessing?

Even worship is less important than Jesus. In fact, worship can become an idol in the church. Some Christians probably worship worship more than they worship Jesus. Some worship leaders probably worship worship-leading more than they worship Jesus. It was never meant to be an industry, a genre in Walmart, a karaoke show on Sunday. If you really want to lead worship, learn to wonder.

And over and over she told him she loved him. And over and over he told her he loved her. And it was always a new thing that they told each other.

I'd wade through slaughter ... To drink your bathwater.

Receive the Body and Blood of Christ very frequently. The sight of a Christian's lips red with the Blood of Christ terrifies the enemy. He immediately recognizes the sign of his own ruin. He cannot stand the instrument of divine victory by which he was taken captive and cast down.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

Believing is easy. It gives us wiggle room to think our way out of a tight spot. But trust doesn't have any wiggle room. It explodes it. Trust is about being all in.

We have to die, and the choice is ours. If we don't, we are still holding on to something. And if we are holding on, we aren't really following. Just sort of following. Standing around. [Oh God, what did I sign up for? This Christianity thing is hard. Deep breath . . .] The apostle Paul chimes in, too: I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. (Galatians 2:19–20)

So he held his services in the hall, and never complained when only thirty or forty people turned up. The church must be a focal point for unity, a place where people could come together and share their faith, not a baron demanding tribute.

Cults have refined their recruitment operations down the centuries until they have become masters of extracting devotion and money from their damaged followers in exchange for their own vision of salvation.

Too many people in the HDA frowned on the Gospel Warriors; the atheists and cynics, mocking the old concepts of faith. He'd long ago learned not to mention his devotion to the Lord to his fellow officers