Quotes about Devotion

You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.

Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God is the only game in town. All other roads are dead ends. Since we must give our all to the one true God, we must not give any part to idols, to the many false gods that now bite away at our lives.

But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a road to holiness.

If I did not love you more today than I did yesterday, I would love you less, and that is intolerable. So I must find more ways to love you every day.

The meaning of life is to become a saint.

God loves us more than we love Him.

Praying anywhere can easily become praying nowhere, just as praying anytime can easily become praying at no time. Everything in general becomes nothing in particular.

The good Jew, like the good Christian, sees behind the law to the Lawgiver, whose will is perfect love.

St. Thomas mentions the three things necessary to attain any end, earthly or Heavenly: knowledge, love, and presence;

Each truth about God known by the mind is a new motive for loving Him with the will.

It also works the other way around: the more you love any person (human or divine), the more you want to know him (or Him) better, and the more you do. And this always causes deep joy.

It's fairly simple. When can we pray? All the time. When should we praise God? Whenever we pray.