Quotes about Devotion

Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.

Everyone knows me and my wife's story. We didn't have sex until we got married.

Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

God's purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God's glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

But marriage is marriage, you know. Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn't that. That is a relationship for pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable, its off. But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. If marriage is not the prime concern, you're not married.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

The severest self-denials and the most lavish gifts are of no value in God's esteem unless they are prompted by love.