Quotes about Devotion

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life. [Written to his wife, Mileva]

Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.

Of all the communities available to us there is not one that I would devote myself to, except for the society of true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.

This is, perhaps, the most difficult of all mortifications to achieve a 'holy indifference' to the temporal success or failure of the cause to which one has devoted one's best energies. If it triumphs, well and good; and if it meets defeat, that also is well and good, if only in ways that, to a limited and timebound mind, are here and now entirely incomprehensible.

The people of God do not serve Him in order to be forgiven but because we are forgiven.

Has your worship or devotional experience lately provided you with ravishing tastes of what A. W. Tozer called the "piercing sweetness" 7 of Christ, only to leave you with a divine discontent that desires more?

Without absorption of the water of God's Word, there's no quenching our spiritual thirst. Meditation is the means of absorption.

In most Christian circles you will rarely hear fasting mentioned, and few will have read anything about it. And yet it's mentioned in Scripture more times even than something as important as baptism (about seventy-seven times for fasting to seventy-five for baptism).

You might think of praying without ceasing as communicating with God on one line while also taking calls on another. Even while you are talking on the other line, you never lose your awareness of the need to return your attention to the Lord. So praying without ceasing means you never really stop conversing with God; you simply have frequent interruptions.

Prayerful people become godly people, for prayerfulness with God cultivates godliness in all of life.

But the main reason why the psalms work so well in prayer is that the very purpose God put them in his Word to us is for us to put them in our words to him.