Quotes About Devotion

Prayer is not for the enhancement of our comforts but for the advancement of Christ's kingdom.

Whatever it takes, Lord, keep me desperate for You because I tend to wander when I stop feeling my need for You.

He died for me, who caused His pain-- For me, who Him to death pursued? Amazing love, how can it be That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me

We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So, find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry."-John Piper

The reason we need a ransom to be paid for us is that we have sold ourselves into sin and have been alienated from a holy God. When Jesus gave his life as a ransom, our slave masters, sin and death and the Devil, had to give up their claim on us. And the result was that we could be adopted into the family of God.

Worship is nothing less than obedience to the command of God: "Delight yourself in the Lord"!

The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for his ends

If our effort to know God more clearly is not an effort to love him more dearly, it will be fatal.

El amor de Dios es una sensación encantadora y afectuosa de la perfección divina que lleva al alma a renunciar y a entregarse en sacrificio a Dios, a desear por sobre todas las cosas agradarle, a deleitarse más que nada en el compañerismo y en la comunión con él, y a estar listo para hacer o sufrir cualquier cosa por su causa o su placer.

What is the chief aim of man? Man's chief aim is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. And? Like ham and eggs? Sometimes you glorify God and sometimes you enjoy Him? Sometimes He gets glory, sometimes you get joy?

Third, I define loving  God mainly as treasuring God. That is, it is an experience of cherishing, delighting, admiring, and valuing.

Christian, be a Christian: live by faith; walk by the Spirit; serve in the strength that God supplies.

God created me-and you-to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion, namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.

Might God not ordain that his fullest blessings will come to the church when we prevail in prayer with the intensity of fasting? That kind of intensification of prayer is what fasting is. It's a physical exclamation point at the end of the sentence, "We hunger for you, O God, to come in power." It's a cry with our body, not just our soul: "I really mean it, LORD! This much, I hunger for you. I want the manifestation of you yourself more than I want food.

If we aim in what we do to display God's glory, we worship.

The deepest reason why we live for the glory of God is that God acts for the glory of God. We are passionate about God's glory because God is passionate about God's glory.

And seek first in all you do to make known His kingship over your life.

Lord, let me make a difference for You that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

Christ is to be cherished, not just chosen.

If we are attracted by the desirability of something God promises, and hope to enjoy it without enjoying God in it and by it, then we are turning God's promise into a summons to idolatry.

What does it mean to be a Christian? Charles Hodge, one of the great nineteenth-century Reformed theologians, sees the answer in this text: "It is being so constrained by a sense of the love of our divine Lord to us, that we consecrate our lives to him."6

May the one thing that you cherish, the one thing that you rejoice in and exult over, be the cross of Jesus Christ.