Quotes About Devotion

Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment

Choose your love; love your choice.

Lord help me to begin to begin.

Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.

Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.

She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.

And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.

Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.

Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.

A devotee has no agenda of his own. For him, the object of devotion is everything.

Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty.

Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord.

The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.

There's always a way - if you're committed.

We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves

The spiritual leader will choose the hidden path of sacrificial service and approval of the Lord over the flamboyant self-advertising of the world.

Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.

Devotion is not about a God. Devotion is about you making your emotions so sweet that your life experience becomes beautiful.

A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.

Nothing of spiritual significance comes without sacrifice. Your spirituality will always be measured by the size of your sacrifice.

Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.