Quotes about Devotion

...if a man love the labor of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him... If you recognize in yourself some such decisive taste, there is no room for hesitation: follow your bent.... soon your every thought will be engrossed in that beloved occupation.

Christianity to me is like a hopeless love affair. It is infinitely dear and infinitely unattainable.

Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him.

Real spiritual growth comes only through discipline and perseverance. In other words, it comes through sticking with it. One of the traps for all of us, however, is substituting activity for genuine fellowship with God.

Christianity is not a religion. it is a relationship with God.

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon

The true Calvinist is someone whose whole life is devoted to the glory of God.

Being wholly given over to God now is the essential and best possible preparation for future service.

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.

I saw that giving even all my life to God (supposing it possible to do this and go no further) would profit me nothing unless I gave my heart, yea, all my heart, to Him.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime.