Quotes about Devotion

You were there teaching me to squander, so that one day we might have nothing left except this love of You. But You are too good to me. When I ask You for Pain, You give me peace. Give it him too. Give him my peace-he needs it more.

He knew now that at the end there was only one thing that counted - to be a saint.

Prayer is the idea of wishing for something from the depth of our hearts and bringing that desire forward to the throne of God.

God can use anyone who truly decides he or she is "for Jesus," as Greg did in 1970, to accomplish extraordinary things for His kingdom.

The kids (in the Jesus Movement) weren't singing for themselves. It seemed like they were singing TO Someone.

Many people have trouble passionately loving and living for God because they have a mental picture of him that inspires anything but passion.

our knowledge of God, our salvation, and our spiritual growth all depend on our keeping our eyes fixed singularly on Jesus Christ.

Love must always start free—but its goal is to become unfree. To be unable not to love is the highest form of freedom in love.

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.

I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.