Quotes about Devotion

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.

Far from being a way to achieve success, ease, and comfort, Christianity calls us to live a life that forgets self and focuses on being God's instrument to show his love to others.

Sooner or later, Trump felt contempt for anyone who showed him too much devotion.

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

I know well that, at this hour, I could as easily forget your name as the food by which I live by; nay, it were easier to forget the food, which only nourishes by body miserably, than your name, which nourishes both body and soul, filling the one and the other with such sweetness that neither weariness nor fear of death is felt by me while memory preserves you to my mind. Think, if the eyes could also enjoy their portion, in what condition I should find myself.

Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to Him in secret. Let this be your chief object in prayer: to realize the presence of your heavenly Father.1 —ANDREW MURRAY

which of course leads to experiencing more of His blessings). Although fasting is voluntary, it was considered a normal part of a believer's life in New Testament times. Notice that Jesus did not say "if " we fast, the Father will see and reward us but "when" we fast. Fasting is for those

The Lord wants much more from His people than for them to be His workforce. He longs to have relationship with those who love Him and to partner with them in accomplishing His purposes.

I really like the heart of Mary of Bethany. She was not an apostle. She was never famous, never wrote a book, never did a conference and never said much. Her passionate love was in secret—she just loved the Lord ferociously in secret.

It is not enough to desire to pray; we must resolutely stay with it. We must fight for our prayer lives because they will not develop on their own.