Quotes About Devotion

Sixth, the community of the church must seek to find ways to provide deep and satisfying koinnia and friendships for those divorced persons who choose not to remarry in order to devote their lives to the service of God outside the married state.

I'm here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I'm trapped here, but because I'd rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

Surely love is both work and wages.

Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I long for such a longing heart (648).

The sanctification of your studies is when they are devoted to God and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.

Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).

The ministerial work must be managed purely for God and the salvation of the people, and not for any private ends of our own.

He may be a Christian by common profession; but, in a saving sense, no man is a Christian, in whose soul any thing hath a greater and higher interest than God the Father, and the Mediator (352).

Anyway, there were no bigger fans in town than Chet and Bub Dawson. (Chet was a diehard K-State fan. He'd claim: "If KU was playin' Russia, I'd root for Russia.")

It is one thing to believe in God's power, it is quite another to live your life in obedient response to an all-powerful God.

He also came to realize that he had been so busy attempting to do things for God he had not spent time enjoying fellowship with God.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

My God, ma'am, you're so pretty I'd walk ten miles barefooted on a freezing morning to stand in your shit.

So saved are all those who enable themselves to believe, and therefore was the military mind called a juvenile mind. It was constant; it observed a code of honor in a world where any element of devotion to a rationale summoned scorn but the world itself knew itself was sick.

Whoe'er she be,That not impossible sheThat shall command my heart and me.

Our calling in life really is this simple (although not therefore easy): We are to devote ourselves to working/building and keeping/protecting everything placed into our charge.

any Christian man who wants to serve the Lord, in any role and at any level, must begin by devoting himself to God's Word. A man who is weak in the Word of God will be of little use for service, for we cannot truly serve God effectively in our own knowledge and strength. But God's Word stirs up in us the faith and spiritual strength needed to serve Him.

Only God can enlighten the mind and open the heart to His gospel. So

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

Dogs are my favorite people.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

And to Mindy, I can only ever say a simple thank you. And dedicate the rest of my life to her.

If in this shadowland of life thou hast Found one true heart to love thee, hold it fast; Love it again, give all to keep it thine, For love like nothing in the world can last.

Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else. A man had a choice, after all. He devoted his life to his work or to his wife and children and home. It could not be combined; not in this day and age. In this insane world where God was second to income and goodness to wealth.