Quotes About Devotion

As you commit your life to follow the Lord, He begins to plant His desires in your heart, then guides you according to His plan

The greatest thing about having a child is putting yourself second in your own life. It's a massive gift to be able to say you're not the most important person to yourself.

But what was endurance and shared diminishment if not devotion?

God calls His people to be active and faithful members of a local church. Going to church is not to be squeezed into the Christian's weekly schedule, but rather it is to be the principle activity and focal point of the Christian life. Entertainment, hobbies, work, and sometimes even family are secondary to the worship of God in the assembly of the saints. In other words, Christians are to rotate their schedules around the life of the church.

En lugar de tratar de añadir al culto nuevas formas de adoración, es necesario dejar que la iglesia busque hacer aquello que ha sido prescrito y hacerlo bien.

Everyone should tackle some great project at least once in their life. I devoted most of my life to inventing new kinds of looms. Now it is your turn. You should make an effort to complete something that will benefit society. (Reingold, 1999)

As I read the Qur'an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness.

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

Be a woman of Christ. Cherish your esteemed place in the sight of God. He needs you. This church needs you. The world needs you. A woman's abiding trust in God and unfailing devotion to things of the Spirit have always been an anchor when the wind and the waves of life were fiercest.

Pray earnestly and fast with purpose and devotion. Some difficulties, like devils, do not come out save by fasting and by prayer. Ask in righteousness and you shall receive. Knock with conviction and it shall be opened unto you.

You and I won't ever find ourselves on that cross, but we repeatedly find ourselves at the foot of it. And how we act there will speak volumes about what we think of Christ's character and His call for us to be His disciples.

In all that Jesus came to say and do, including and especially in His atoning suffering and sacrifice, He was showing us who and what God the Eternal Father is like, how completely devoted He is to His children in every age and nation. In word and in deed Jesus was trying to reveal and make personal to us the true nature of His Father, our Father in Heaven.

We must be willing to place all that we have--not just our possessions (they may be the easiest things of all to give up), but also our ambition and pride and stubbornness and vanity--we must place it all on the altar of God, kneel there in silent submission, and willingly walk away.

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

If I don't return, make sure Hercules moves on from all of this," Meg said. "Meg..." Phil swallowed hard. It was the first time he'd called her by her actual name. She tried to put her spinning thoughts into words. "I don't want him wasting his immortality on me. He's a good guy who gives so much of himself. He deserves to have someone do that for him in return. Got it?" Phil looked at her. "Wow, you really do love the guy, don't you?

I work too hard and I love it too much.

Nothing is too much to ask when it is done out of love,

Jesus, may there be less of me and my junk and more of You and Your kingdom." I will reduce, so He can increase.

I choose you and I would choose you all over again. As Jane Eyre said of her Mr. Rochester, "I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blessed—blessed beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine."1

Once we belong to Him, we know where to look for sweet communion,

We've invented a thousand shades of gray, devising a comfortable Christian existence we can all live with—super awesome, except the Bible doesn't support it. According to Scripture, no real disciple serves God while addicted to the dollar. There

The church the Bible described is exciting and adventurous and wrought with sacrifice. It cost believers everything, and they still came.

You're here. I'm here. I love you. I'm gonna pee all over the floor about it.

My friend's dog is so happy to see her every single time she walks in the door it's like she's about to free him from forty years of imprisonment.