Quotes about Devotion

Prayer, perhaps more than any other activity, is the concrete expression of the fact that we are invited into a relationship with God.

I did, however, remember a line from a book by Dallas Willard that I had read just recently: "At the beginning of each morning I commit my day to the Lord's care. . . . I have already placed God in charge. I no longer have to manage the weather, airplanes, and other people.

So much as we see of the love of God, so much shall we delight in him, and no more.

keep the heart full of a sense of the love of God in Christ. This is the greatest preservative against the power of temptation in the world. Joseph

Think greatly of the greatness of God.

He that would be like unto God must be sure to love him, or all other endeavours to that purpose will be in vain; and he that loves God sincerely will be like him.

You name the name of Christ, profess an interest in him, and expect salvation by him; which way will you apply yourselves unto him?

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not on thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." "It's

Choose you this day whom ye will serve … but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

For what is a god but what we go to again and again?

Once a week, beginning at sunset on Friday and until sunset on Saturday, the family had to pause. A Jewish merchant had explained the Sabbath to Agios already, back in Egypt. No devout Hebrew could work or travel on that day. If they were near a temple, the family went there. If no temple was available, they prayed where they were.