Quotes About Devotion

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

This is. The apotheosis. Of how she makes me feel.

A real lover is a true friend.

My heart an altar, and Thy love the flame.

ETERNAL Father of my soul, let my first thought today be of you, let my first impulse be to worship you, let my first word be your Name, let my first action be to kneel before you in prayer.

All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.

For a long time I'd been fed on the wheat of The Imitation. It was the only book which did me any good, as I hadn't discovered the treasures of the Gospels. I knew every chapter by heart. I was never without this little book.

True honor is an outflow from a heart that fears God.

True worship is revealed by who we obey, not who we sing to.

Worry and worship are mutually exclusive.

Theodore became a hermit, lived for two years in a cave, and then for a time inhabited an iron cage. (This sort of flamboyant asceticism was common in the Christian East.)

For a nice guy, the noblest virtues are camaraderie, dependability, and unswerving loyalty.

I venerate the intellect of man. I believe in its undreamed-of possibilities, when it grows free like an oak in the forest and is not dwarfed in a flower-pot. From that allegiance I have never wavered. That is the God I have never forsworn.

Good worship will strive for height.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart.

I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.