Quotes about Devotion

No Spiritual Discipline is more important than the intake of God's Word. Nothing can substitute for it. There simply is no healthy Christian life apart from a diet of the milk and meat of Scripture.

People have so great a need to reverence, to worship, to adore; it is a psychological necessity of human nature that must be taken into account.

Every Catholic faced with a great need starts a novena. There is good precedent for this. The apostles stayed in the Cenacle for nine days after the Ascension of Jesus Christ, praying for the descent of the Holy Spirit. That was the first novena. Novenas are started nine days before the feast of some favorite saint or they can be made at any time.

Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

Living for Christ is a day-to-day going on with Him. It is a continuous dependence upon the Spirit of God. It is believing in His faithfulness.

The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

Engage with the Bible. Meditate on it day and night. Think and rethink about God's Word. Let it be your guide. Make it your go-to book for questions. Let it be the ultimate authority in your life.

Every day, you are to offer your life to God for His service. You do not serve Him in your spare time or with your leftover resources. The way you live your life for God is your offering to Him.

Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another.

If you will make time with God your first priority, everything else in your life will fall into place.

To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.