Quotes About Devotion

Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.

Prayer is sacred act for all seasons.

At the end few things matter more than how well you loved those who love you. Love and honor your family.

Hope is not a sin, neither is fidelity.

Hope is not a sin, and neither is fidelity.

So if the ties that bind ever do come looseTie them in a knot like a hangman's nooseCause I'll go to heaven or I'll go to hellBefore I'll see you with someone else.

Life is the lover's responsibility.

The Reverence of God is reverence for life.

God, you made me. You love me. What would you have me do? Where would you have me go? Who would you have me serve? Show me how I can be your eyes of compassion, your heart of love, and your hands reaching out to this world. Amen.

O fairest of creation! last and bestOf all God's works! creature in whom excell'dWhatever can to sight or thought be form'd,Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost,Defac'd, deflower'd, and now to Death devote?

Peor and BaalimForsake their temples dim.

Among the faithless, faithful only he.

Who bestBear his mild yoke, they serve him best: his stateIs kingly; thousands at his bidding speed,And post o'er land and ocean without rest;They also serve who only stand and wait.

Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

There is no limit to the power of loving.

O my Savior, Shield, and Sun,   Shepherd, Brother, Husband, Friend,   Every precious name in one;   I will love thee without end.

We have no Scriptural evidence that we serve the Lord at all, any farther than we find a habitual desire and aim to serve him wholly. He is gracious to our imperfections and weakness; yet he requires all the heart, and will not be served by halves, nor accept what is performed by a divided heart.

How many are there here who would die for this city? How many who would defend to the death its perimeters? How many who would submit to torture on its behalf?

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

It's no good trying to fool yourself about love. You can't fall into it like a soft job, without dirtying up your hands. It takes muscle and guts. And if you can't bear the thought of messing up your nice, clean soul, you'd better give up the whole idea of life and become a saint.

Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience...

He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.

Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.