Quotes About Devotion

Since Christ, our Head, has ascended to heaven, we should leave our carnal desires behind and lift our hearts upward to him.

And this is the evidence of faith that we never allow ourselves to be torn away from Christ and the promises we have in him. The

By piety I mean that union of reverence and love to God which the knowledge of his benefits inspires.

all those who go around draped with a false sanctimoniousness do it by the devil's prodding; because no one can worship God rightly with outward ceremonies, for true worshipers adore him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). Secondly

The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.

I loved thee, though I told thee not, Right earlily and long, thou wert joy of my ever spot theme of my every song.

He was the universe to me, and all that was not him, was nothing to me.

I believe in those whom I love and trust.

He had loved her as much as a man can love his wife, and so nothing more need be said.

He'd eat it, though, and not just because he was hungry. He'd have eaten it even if Hayley Conyer had force-fed him caviar and foie gras during their meeting. He'd eat it because his wife had prepared it for him.

I'm Episcopalian. I believe in everything.

Landscape is my mistress - t'is to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to man

the seventeenth-century saint, Margaret Marie Alacoque, a French nun of Parayle-Monial, who founded the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Margaret would deliberately eat cheese knowing that it made her vomit, and by her own admission she ate the vomit of sister nuns.

God wants a people addicted to His pleasure, a people who serve Him for no other reason than the delight they take in Him. This is the very heart of worship. It is not self-centred. It is putting God at the very centre of self so that self cannot possibly be satisfied without Him.

What is God drunk on? Your love.

He is most glorified when you receive what He has done for you. He did not say, "This is the cup of the New Covenant, now go tread some more grapes." He simply said, "Drink ye all of it" (Matt. 26:27-28). Your job description is not helper, assistant or even co-laborer as much as it is drinker. As John Piper often says, God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in Him.

Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

Let go into His arms until you find yourself obsessed on things divine

He wavered suddenly, doubted doubts. He looked at his big beloved.

Carrying a torch," George Mouse called it, and Auberon, who had never heard the old phrase, thought it just, because he thought of the torch he carried not as a penitential or devotional one, but as Sylvie. He carried a torch: her. She flared brightly sometimes, sank low other times; he saw by her, though he had no path in particular he wanted to see.

Do you Barble take this Daily Alice to be your awful wedded life for bed or for worse insidious in stealth for which or for poor or to have unto whole until death you do part?

I do," Smoky said. "I do too," Daily Alice said. "Wring," Doctor Word said. "And now you pounce you, man on wife.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

It is when love takes on responsibilities that it most frequently wanders from the path.