Quotes About Devotion

Nothing drives people to loony extremes more than religion and national pride.

He who loves me, let him follow me.

A religion without followers is just a weird guy with strange ideas.

Richard had taken the Bimbo off his visiting list and had told Doreen that if he was moved to East block he would marry her. Since the first time she'd seen Richard on TV being taken away from the angry mob on Hubbard Street, she had wanted to marry him, to fight his battles, to be known as Mrs. Richard Ramirez.

COMPETED WITH YOU, MY DEAR, IN DEVOTION, VIRTUE, FRUGALITY, AND LOVE—BUT I ALWAYS LOST. I WISH EVERYONE THE SAME FATE.

the Christian life requires a continual turning away from sin. But it also requires constant faith, for the Christian daily looks to Christ for loving care. The penitent believer never stops trusting in the saving power of the crucified and risen Saviour.

Artists are called and gifted-personally, by name-to write, paint, sing, play, and dance to the glory of God.

The call of the new covenant is the same as the old: in loving God, we give him our "all.

The more I work on loving Jesus, the easier it becomes to love my family. Maybe it's really a matter of putting first things first. When we love the way of Jesus first, we're then sufficiently equipped to love our families.

But though the mass Be holy, yet the first-fruits God most loves.

Any heart turned Godward feels more joy In one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raised By all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

Respect is what we owe love, what we give.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

give me faith not religion...

more in Northern Ireland. The church places particular emphasis on religious education as well as devotion, though

I, too, have to end up worshipping at the altar where God's name is truth.

Where there is nothing sacred, there is nothing.

Charles Wesley fully sided with the Arminianism of his brother John, and abused his poetic gift by writing poor doggerel against Calvinism.847 He had a bitter controversy on the subject with Toplady, who was a devout Calvinist. But their theological controversy is dead and buried, while their devotional hymns still live, and Calvinists and Methodists heartily join in singing Wesley's "Jesus, Lover of my Soul," and Toplady's "Rock of Ages, cleft for me.

One person's religion is another person's cult.

Have I caught my heav'nly jewel.

My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,By just exchange one for the other given:I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,There never was a better bargain driven.

My dear, my better half.

Obedience appears to me more and more the whole business of life, the only road to love and peace.

Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial.