Quotes About Devotion

He did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of praying well. To know how to speak to God is more than knowing how to speak to man. Not power with men, but power with God is the first thing. Jesus loves to teach us how to pray.

How often we say prayers, but how little we really pray! May God make us worthy of doing the work for each other.

A life marked by daily answer to prayer is evidence of spiritual maturity.

Dear friends, maybe you have never sincerely said it because you never thought it was needed; but say it now if you mean it. "Oh Christ, let me be filled with the Holy Spirit. I will give up anything and everything. Accept my surrender of all to You!

First, let us look at Peter the devoted disciple of Jesus; next, at Peter as he lived the life of self; then, at Peter in his repentance; and last, at what Christ made of Peter by the Holy Spirit.

If I bear the name of another, I have given up my own name and my own independent life.

If Christ is to give Himself wholly to me, He must know that He has me wholly for Himself;

And the Christian life has suffered loss, where believers have not been distinctly guided to see that, even in our relation as creatures, nothing is more natural and beautiful and blessed than to be nothing, that God may be all;

Be sure that at the root of all real experience of more grace, of all true advance in consecration, of all actually increasing conformity to the likeness of Jesus, there must be a deadness to self that proves itself to God and men in our dispositions and habits.

Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He

The extent of our love to the Lord is shown by the way we obey His commands. Love does all that it can to make the loved one happy.

Jesus gave up His life to God, and by this He taught us that the only thing that life is worth living for is to give it back to God, even unto death.

it was as if everything conspired to keep him from prayer.

And so He teaches us two lessons of deep importance about prayer. The one is that faith needs a life of prayer in which to grow and keep strong. The other is that prayer needs fasting for its full and perfect development.

There is such a danger of our being more occupied with the things that are coming than with Him who is to come.

experience of the purity and the power, the love and

with the abiding in Him. It is with the desire

The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will the blessing be that prayer will bring to myself.

Nothing short of conformity to Christ—a life wholly dedicated to God—should satisfy you.

mind for a time on some one of the lessons of faith

take and thoroughly assimilate them. I have the hope that to some, especially young believers, it will be a help to come and for a month day after

Resolve: "I will engage in a religious life only for the love of God; and I will endeavor to act only for Him; whatever becomes of me I will always continue to act purely for the love of God.

In love to our brothers, we have the evidence of love to the Father, the basis of confidence before God, and the assurance that our prayer will be heard.

blessing. I pray earnestly that our gracious Lord