Quotes about Devotion
If a minister wants to be a man among men he need only to stop creating devotion to abstract ideals which every one accepts in theory and denies in practice, and to agonize about their validity and practicability in the social issues which he and others face in our present civilization.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
I regret the immaturity with which I approached the problems and tasks of the ministry but I do not regret the years devoted to the parish.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Surely love is both work and wages.
— Richard Baxter
Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I long for such a longing heart (648).
— Richard Baxter
The sanctification of your studies is when they are devoted to God and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.
— Richard Baxter
Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).
— Richard Baxter
The ministerial work must be managed purely for God and the salvation of the people, and not for any private ends of our own.
— Richard Baxter
He may be a Christian by common profession; but, in a saving sense, no man is a Christian, in whose soul any thing hath a greater and higher interest than God the Father, and the Mediator (352).
— Richard Baxter
If and worms'-meat must have such respect, think, then, what reverence thou shouldst approach thy Maker (569).
— Richard Baxter
It is one thing to believe in God's power, it is quite another to live your life in obedient response to an all-powerful God.
— Richard Blackaby
He also came to realize that he had been so busy attempting to do things for God he had not spent time enjoying fellowship with God.
— Richard Blackaby
It is difficult to talk with God each day and continue to sin.
— Richard Blackaby