Quotes About Devotion

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.

I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn't want stalkers.

MARY MAGDALENE: I also knew Judas Iscariot very well. SAINT MONICA: Gangsta! MARY MAGDALENE: Out of the Twelve, he was the most moody and the most impetuous, and yet, he was my favorite. SAINT MONICA: Tupac!

God asks today's Christian wives this question: "Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord' and not do what I say?" (Luke 6:46). As

Jesus on the cross stands forever as the greatest possible symbol of love in action.

Affection is love shown.

We may have already chosen to follow God, letting him define the overall direction of our life. Even so, many of us still try to keep parts of our heart hidden from God. We have devoted these parts of ourself to gratifying our addiction, to doing things that are contrary to the will of God. This sets us up for living a double life, which can fill us with guilt, shame, and instability.

6But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.

13Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.

Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving.

We must first believe that he is, and that he is what he declares himself to be, before we can seek him, adore him, and devote our affections to him.13 We cannot pay God a due and regular homage, unless we understand him in his perfections, what he is; and we can pay him no homage at all, unless we believe that he is.

Without the heart it's not worship, it's a stage play.

I would die for you. But I won't live for you.

And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.

He who devotes himself" M. K. Gandhi. Non-Violent Resistance Satyagraha. Dover Publications: Mineola, New York, 2001

We work first because we have to work. Then because we want to work. Then because we love to work. Then the work simply does us. Difficult at the beginning. Inevitable at the end.

My life does not belong to me." Chardin would have said, "My life belongs to God." Katherine found it closer to the truth to say, "My life belongs to the world.

He had fought like a pagan who defends his religion.

Horror is not a symptom it's a love affair.

Costly discipleship is held captive to Christ; it is Christ-centered.

Perhaps Bonhoeffer shapes us best by showing us in word and in deed, as a theologian and in his life, how to live the Christian life, how to be a disciple of Christ, how to live in the Christuswirklichkeit.

The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.