Quotes About Devotion

Grant me a growing ability to see all things as a stepping stone to You:

It's not only true that my life is Christ's, but my life is Christ.

Lord, my deep joy is not in what I am — or used to be — as a mere human being. Instead, "all my springs of joy are in You" (Psalm 87:7, NASB). I

How much better to fill today with the three great basics of Christian living — faith, hope, and love. All are rooted in God.

And yet, at night I lie on my bed, counting my beads, one for every thing on earth I love, on and on, in a circle without end.

By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. —1 John 3:16

It is impossible to exist without passion

The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.

My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.

For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

With respect to love we speak continually about perfection and the perfect person. With respect to love Christianity also speaks continually about perfection and the perfect person. Alas, but we men talk about finding the perfect person in order to love him. Christianity speaks about being the perfect person who limitlessly loves the person he sees.

He who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.

Faith is the highest passion in a man.

Let us speak of this in purely human terms. Oh! how pitiable a person who has never felt the loving urge to sacrifice everything for love, who has therefore been unable to do so!

Oh Thou that givest both the beginning and the completion, give Thou victory in the day of need so that what neither a man's burning wish nor his determined resolution may attain to, may be granted unto him in the sorrowing of repentance: to will only one thing.

In the deepest sense you shall make yourself nothing, become nothing before God, learn to be silent. In this silence is the beginning, which is to seek first God's kingdom

for he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself he who loves God believingly reflects upon God.

My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.

for he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself, he who loves God believingly reflects upon God. Upon

Hablando en términos humanos, amar es seguir la representación que el amado se haya formado acerca de lo que es el amor, y haciéndolo uno será amado.

existing cannot be done without passion.