Quotes About Devotion

The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.

The greatest spiritual practice is to transform love into service

Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

I was in love with loving.

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.

Hence, a devout Christian must avoid astrologers and all impious soothsayers, especially when they tell the truth, for fear of leading his soul into error by consorting with demons and entangling himself with the bonds of such association.

Love God and do whatever you please, for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

May my life be a continual prayer, a long act of love.

Love is he, radiant with great splendor,And speaks to us of Thee, O Most High.

Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee as Thou deservest:To give and not to count the cost;To fight and not to heed the wounds;To toil and not to seek for rest;To labor and not ask for any rewardSave that of knowing that we do Thy will.

Almost the whole life of religious bodies lies in the maintenance of their first fervor.

Love knows nothing of order.

To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

Henceforward burn what thou hast worshipped, and worship what thou hast burned.

Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love thee! Yet these sufferings are as nothing compared to the reward Thou wilt give for them.

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.

Those who risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all

Sweet Love say Where, how and when What do you want of me? Yours I am, for You I was born: What do you want of me? . . .

Sure, for all our blindness; secure, for all our helplessness; strong, for all our weakness; gaily in love, for all the pressures on our hearts.