Quotes About Devotion

We can worship God imperfectly, but we cannot worship him insincerely.

Este es el secreto para una vida de adoración: Hacer todo como si lo hicieras para Jesús. Una paráfrasis lo expresa así: «Toma tu vida cotidiana, la vida de todos los días —tu descanso, tus comidas, tu trabajo, y tus idas y venidas— y ponlas como una ofrenda ante Dios».

We bring God glory by worshiping him. Worship is our first responsibility to God. We worship God by enjoying him.

Whatever is at the center of your life is your god

Who are you going to live for — yourself or God?

Behold at thy feet, O Mother of Perpetual Help, O Mother of mercy, my refuge and my hope.

Servants don't fill up their time with other pursuits that could limit their availability.

God was thinking of you even before he made the world. In fact, that's why he created it! God designed this planet's environment just so we could live in it. We are the focus of his love and the most valuable of all his creation.

Servants think about their work, not what others are doing.

What pleases the LORD more: burnt offerings and sacrifices or obedience to his voice? It is better to obey than to sacrifice.

Use your whole body as a tool to do what is right for the glory of God.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.

serving is the highest use of life

Often we try to offer God partial obedience. We want to pick and choose the commands we obey. We make a list of the commands we like and obey those while ignoring the ones we think are unreasonable, difficult, expensive, or unpopular. I'll attend church but I won't tithe. I'll read my Bible but won't forgive the person who hurt me. Yet partial obedience is disobedience.

Real worship costs.

If you want to be used by God, you must care about what God cares about;

Another of Brother Lawrence's helpful ideas was to pray shorter conversational prayers continually through the day rather than trying to pray long sessions of complex prayers.

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.

A lot of people thought Theo spoiled his girls, but how could you spoil a child—by neglect, yes, but not by love. You had to give them all the love you could, even though giving that much love could cause you pain and anguish and horror and, in the end, love could destroy you. Because they left, they went to university and husbands, they went to Canada and they went to the grave.

He loved Viola as only a parent can love a child, but it was hard work.

Everything was from duty, nothing from love. Duty killed you in the end.

and Jackson didn't know then what he knew now - what it was like to love a child, how you would give your own life in a heartbeat to save theirs, how they were more precious than the most precious thing.

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

I love you, only you; no one but you. It was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream.