Quotes About Devotion

Humility is simply the sense of entire nothingness, which comes when we see how truly God is all, and in which we make way for God to be all.

to the child, the Father all for the child. We shall understand how Father and child, the Thine and the Our, are all one, and how the heart that begins its prayer with the God-devoted Thine, will have the power in faith to speak out the Our too. Such prayer will, indeed, be the

Paul felt deeply for the unity of the body of Christ. He was convinced that unity could only be reached by the exercise of love and prayer.

He considered Himself to be the servant of God for the men whom God made and loved.

Oh! take time, to get very low before God.

But, oh! we are far more occupied with our work than we are with prayer. We believe more in speaking to men than we believe in speaking to God.

The secret of true obedience is a close and unmistakable relationship with God.

fix your desire on this one thing: to be filled with the Spirit of God.

God is love. Christ is the Son of His love. And because He loved His people to the end, He asked them to prove their love to Him by obeying His commands, and by loving one another with the love with which He loves them. In heaven and on earth, and in all our work for Christ and our care for the world, the greatest thing is love.

we offer ourselves as learners; we would indeed be taught of Thee. 'Lord, teach us to pray.

We wish in a halfhearted way to be better than we are. But how few there are who truly ''hunger and thirst after righteousness''; how few who intensely long for a life of obedience and the continual consciousness of being pleasing to God.

Jesus Christ is able, by His divine grace, to prevent the power of self from ever asserting itself or gaining the upper hand; Jesus Christ is willing to become the life of the soul; Jesus Christ is willing to teach us so to follow Him, and to have heart and life set upon Him alone, that He shall ever and always be the light of our souls.

May God write the Word in our hearts!

No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God.

places. A man who seeks to pray earnestly in the church or in the closet, spends the greater part of the week or the day in a spirit entirely at variance with that in which he prayed. His worship was the work of a fixed place or hour, not of his whole

Let the glory of the All-glorious God be everything to you.

Therefore every morning, present yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead. He will maintain the life He gave, and bestow the grace to live as risen ones.

There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of true fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a Church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of any very radical change in the relation of the majority of our Christian people to mission work.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall recompense thee.'—Matt. vi. 6.

It is only the fully surrendered heart that can fully trust God for all that He has promised.

Remember that you have been saved in order to serve, and you are on earth for the sole purpose of making God's love known to others.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.'—John iv. 23, 24.

And according to what we have of God will be our real humility, because humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

Would you allow other people to be masters in the home you dwell in? You never would. And yet, alas! you allow so much else to occupy the heart and have the place God alone is meant to have.