Quotes About Devotion

My first love was everything, all at once. The kind of love you fight for, the kind of boy you fight for.

He that loves the law will get his fill of it.

The church belongs to you, Jesus; she's your beloved bride. Yet, as with everything else, we often take the church into the idol factory of our hearts and retool her to be an ingrown club for our own satisfaction.

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life. (Ps. 143:8 NIV)

I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. (2 Cor. 11:2–3 NIV)

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. (Col. 3:23–24)

once God rescues sinners, his plan is not to steer them beyond the gospel but to move them more deeply into it—that the gospel doesn't simply ignite the Christian life but is also the fuel that keeps Christians going and growing every day.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. (John 15:9–10)

We don't claim your promises—they claim us! If we're going to "name and claim" anything, may it be to have greater passion for your glory.

I dutifully pray, but I faithlessly doubt. Forgive my unbelief; override my unbelief.

But Scotty has helped me to realize that once God rescues sinners, his plan is not to steer them beyond the gospel but to move them more deeply into it—that the gospel doesn't simply ignite the Christian life but is also the fuel that keeps Christians going and growing every day.

I want to know you, Lord Jesus, more intimately than ever. This is the one thing I want more than anything else. And I want to experience more of the power of your resurrection, for I have no power in myself to love others as you love me.

Dear Jesus, there's no more important or necessary gift we can give our children than to keep on bringing them to you. Whether they're babies, teenagers, or adults themselves, it makes no difference. At every stage of life, our kids need you, Jesus.

Teach us how to be stewards of technology, not slaves to technology. Teach us how to be creative, not cute; faithful, not manipulative; simple, not spectacular. Reel us back in anytime we move away from the "sincere and pure devotion to Christ" (2 Cor. 11:3). And let us never forget that you are not seeking "great worship" but true worshipers—those who worship you "in the Spirit and in truth" (John 4:23 NIV).

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ. (2 Thess. 3:5)

I set my heart on you today, Jesus, as my ultimate good.

Having loved his own who were in the world, he [Jesus] loved them to the end. (John 13:1 NIV)

Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them. We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat. (Heb. 13:9–10)

Father, because of past grace, present grace, and future grace, I want to live with bowed knees and palms up toward you. I seek to worship other things less by loving you more.

Jesus, take my humble praise and purify it, magnify it, and cause it to be a sweet aroma in your heart.

May we come to the point where we'd sooner avoid oxygen and water than the means of grace.

I mean, I'm married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything - funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits.

And here is love like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its glean in the meal-bin. --"Sunlight

Self-sacrifice is essential to leadership. You will give, give all the time.