Quotes About Devotion

By praying in Jesus' name, we petition God to make our life shine for Christ's glory and eternity's purposes.

Love for him compels us to live for him.

God will honor prayer truly offered in Jesus' name.

When we pray in Jesus' name, we are appealing to the Holy Spirit to conform our prayers to Christ's purposes.

We sin not because we do not love Christ at all but because we don't love him above all.

Public ministry true to God's purposes requires devoted private prayer. We should not expect our words to acquaint others with the power of the Spirit if we have not met with him.

Love needs no chains.

Nothing will ever separate us, neither life, nor death, nor the armies of Hell. If I don't see you again on this side of the heavenly wall, I will see you on the other.

Forever and ever Bonnie, I will always be your friend.

Man is a religious being; the heart instinctively seeks for a God. Whether he worships on the banks of the Ganges, prays with his face upturned to the sun, kneels toward Mecca or, regarding all space as a temple, communes with the Heavenly Father according to the Christian creed, man is essentially devout.

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.

Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.

Jesus had many lovers of the kingdom of heaven but precious few bearers of his cross. Father Barry read on: … Interrogate

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

A dog is a special being. The one who lacks a dog has nothing to give his love to.

Stonewall Jackson was the symbol of Southern resistance, but his sister Laura, a Union sympathizer, remained unshaken in her devotion to the Old Republic, and was applauded for her stand by Federal soldiers. She sent a message by a Union soldier to the effect that she could "take care of wounded Federals as fast as brother Thomas would wound them.

For though I tried to move his arm— unlock his bridegroom clasp—yet, sleeping as he was, he still hugged me tightly, as though naught but death should part us twain.

He paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit's bows, folded his large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

Another point of difference between the male and female schools is still more characteristic of the sexes. Say you strike a Forty-barrel-bull—poor devil! all his comrades quit him. But strike a member of the harem school, and her companions swim around her with every token of concern, sometimes lingering so near her and so long, as themselves to fall a prey.

Say you strike a Forty-barrel-bull—poor devil! all his comrades quit him. But strike a member of the harem school, and her companions swim around her with every token of concern, sometimes lingering so near her and so long, as themselves to fall a prey.

I'd rather be killed by you than kept alive by any other man

Marjorie, darling, listen to me. You know—God knows—you're not the first girl in my life nor the second, but I swear to you this is new. The reason you're so crazily in love is that I am, too. There's no other reason. It happens once in a lifetime to everyone, and I swear to God I'm beginning to think it's happened for us.

But... When it comes to you... I want to believe in forever.