Quotes About Devotion

Don't allow the other demands of your day to overshadow your intimate time with God.

of our prayer and meditation.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love is everything

I thought you'd have learned by now. I'm going to stay by you until the sun and the moon and the stars spin down into darkness and dust.

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing

saw him looking up at her and what she was doing the way the eyes of saints are painted when they are looking up at God when he is doing something remarkable, something that identifies him as God.

I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.

No Muslim, I felt certain, ever thought of Allah as his father. Since childhood, I had been told that the surest way to know about Allah was to pray five times a day and study and think on the Quran. Yet Dr. Santiago's words came to me again. "Talk to God. Talk to Him as if He were your father.

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

Jesus Christ is the god whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.

Finally, let them recognise that there are two kinds of people one can call reasonable; those who serve God with all their heart because they know Him, and those who seek Him with all their heart because they do not know Him.

If we ought to give up a week we ought to give up our whole life.

The right way is to want what God wants. Christ alone leads to it. Via Veritas.1

God has never abandoned His true worshipers.

The term "middle age" fits where we are, for I see in him both the young man I fell in love with and the old one he will be. I see my own dear husband and I am struck by how deeply I love him, by how many times I have nearly lost him—and by how lost I would be without him.

foolish God is with me, my sweet, spendthrift, profligate Lord, bestowing on me more gifts than I can number and certainly more than I deserve, believing in me more than makes sense, asking of me things I would not have thought myself capable of.

One ought not talk about oneself, it may hide Jesus from view.

Read God's Word now as God's Word, without skipping anything. Underline heavily everything about what our Savior has done for us. And if you like, write 'For me' in the margin. You need this yourself, and it is your duty to preach it to your congregation, as well.

Why wait any longer for the one you love When he's standing in front of you

Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again.

Oswald Chambers summed it up well: "If I am devoted to the cause of humanity only, I will soon be exhausted and come to the place where my love will falter; but if I love Jesus Christ personally and passionately, I can serve humanity though men treat me as a doormat."1

I will not leave my people. 17But those who trust in idols, who say to their statues, 'You are our gods' will be rejected in disgrace.

An utter and complete tyrant, her face only melted at Mass, a ritual she clearly loved.

In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.