Quotes about Devotion

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

With respect to love we speak continually about perfection and the perfect person. With respect to love Christianity also speaks continually about perfection and the perfect person. Alas, but we men talk about finding the perfect person in order to love him. Christianity speaks about being the perfect person who limitlessly loves the person he sees.

He who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.

Faith is the highest passion in a man.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

Oh Thou that givest both the beginning and the completion, give Thou victory in the day of need so that what neither a man's burning wish nor his determined resolution may attain to, may be granted unto him in the sorrowing of repentance: to will only one thing.

for he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself he who loves God believingly reflects upon God.

for he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself, he who loves God believingly reflects upon God. Upon

What Christendom needs at every moment is someone who expresses Christianity uncalculatingly or with absolute recklessness.

loved. For he who loved himself became great by himself, and he who loved other men became great by his selfless devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.

he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself he who loves God believingly reflects upon God.

Oh, to what degree human beings would become—human and lovable beings—if they would become single individuals before God!