Quotes About Devotion

In days long ago when there were no spiritual directors or brilliant commentaries on Scripture, fidelity to God's will was the whole of spirituality.

Faith means you want God and want to want nothing else.

Though lip service is paid to the gospel of grace, many Christians live as if only personal discipline and self-denial will mold the perfect me. The emphasis is on what I do rather than on what God is doing. In this curious process God is a benign old spectator in the bleachers who cheers when I show up for morning quiet time.

All that is not the love of God has no meaning for me. I can truthfully say that I have no interest in anything but the

ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE the overriding issue for the ragamuffin rabble is the person of Jesus Christ.

ABBA, I BELONG TO YOU.

My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of page 20, say, I realise I can recite pages 21 and 22 from memory. Then I put the book away for a few years.

I'm doing what I've always done. Loving you and hoping you'll be brave enough to love me back.

i feel that her being is inseparable from my own, and that the footsteps of my life are in hers. all the best of me belong to her, there is not a talent or an aspiration or a joy in me that has not awakened by her loving touch.... about her teacher: ann sulivan.

God knows I never sought anything in you except yourself. I wanted simply you, nothing of yours.

I will baptise her, he said. You have walked a long way for something you believe in. In our day that is rare. People seldom walk long distances for their faith. That's why the world looks the way it does.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.

a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.

The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.

From that heart come the words, "Do you love me?" Knowing the heart of Jesus and loving him are the same thing. The knowledge of Jesus' heart is a knowledge of the heart.

Marriage is not that two people love each other so much that they can find God in each other, but that God loves them so much that they can discover each other as living reminders of God's presence.

every relationship carries within its center a holy vacancy, a space that is for the first Love, God alone.

God loves us before any human person can show love to us. He loves us with a "first" love, an unlimited, unconditional love, wants us to be his beloved children, and tells us to become as loving as himself.

ministry can be fruitful only if it grows out of a direct and intimate encounter with our Lord.

For Paul, praying is like breathing. It cannot be interrupted without mortal danger.

To love and work for the glory of God cannot remain an idea about which we think once in a while. It must become an interior, unceasing doxology.

It seems that in fact we live as if we should give as much of our heart, soul, and mind as possible to our fellow human beings, while trying hard not to forget about God…But Jesus' claim is much more radical. He asks for single-minded commitment to God and God alone. God wants all of our heart, all of our mind, and all of our soul.

God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.

Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.