Quotes About Devotion

Your yearning for God must supersede all other desires. It must be like a gnawing hunger and a burning thirst.

We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.

We must repent of our prayerlessness. We must make prayer our priority. Even our churches today have gotten away from prayer meetings.

When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold.

True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency. Make it a habit, and when the need arises you will be in practice.

God—the Bible's Author—loves you and wants you to be His child through faith in Jesus Christ.

If we read the Bible as carefully and as regularly as we read the daily papers, we would be as familiar with and as well informed about God as we are about our favorite player's batting average during baseball season!

Faith is loved and honored by God more than any other single thing.

Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.

Jesus] prayed briefly when He was in a crowd; He prayed a little longer when He was with His disciples; and He prayed all night when He was alone. Today, many in the ministry tend to reverse that process.

Only surrendered Christians will make an impact on our world. The world does not need any more lukewarm Christians, or lazy Christians, or quarrelsome Christians, or doubting Christians, or prideful Christians.

God and God's Word are inseparable.

Jesus] had only three years of public ministry, but He was never too hurried to spend hours in prayer . . . No day began or closed in which He was not in communion with His Father.

Our Father and our God, thank You for using people like me to spread Your Word to the world. I am the least likely person, I know, to be used for such a glorious work. Show me what You want me to do, Lord, and I'll do it. I know I can do it through the strength of Christ Jesus, my Lord. Amen.

We need to place God at the center of our family . . . As a family, we need to walk with God daily.

We must practice the Presence of God. Jesus said, "Lo, I am with you always" [Matthew 28:20]. Remember, Christ is always near us.

Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely and unreservedly to Christ.

To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.

May our gratitude find expression in our prayers and our service for others, and in our commitment to live wholly for Christ.

We were created to live a life of prayer.

Someone has said, "Prayer is the highest use to which speech can be put.

Oh God, if You want me to serve You, I will. I'll be what You want me to be. I'll go where You want me to go.

Think of working forever at something you love to do, for [the] one you love with all your heart, and never getting tired! We will never know weariness in heaven.

I believe we should pray that God will take possession of our lives totally and completely. We should pray that we will be emptied of self— self-love, self-will, self-ambition—and be placed completely at His disposal.