Quotes about Devotion

This is the essence of the death-to-self life: that we should no longer live for ourselves, but for him who died for us and rose again.

The missing note in evangelical life today is not in the first instance spirituality but rather obedience. We have generated a variety of religion to which obedience is not regarded as essential.

We cannot behave "on the spot" as he did and taught if in the rest of our time we live as everybody else does.

Content with beholding His face, My all to His pleasure resigned; No changes of season or place Would make any change in my mind; While blessed with a sense of his love, A palace a toy would appear; And prisons would palaces prove, If Jesus would dwell with me there.

The people who love God with all their heart are those whose will is totally devoted to what is good for God.

Nowhere is it more important to be in a conversational relationship with God than in our prayer life.

So my first point is simply: life in Christ has to do with obedience to his teaching.

After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself… And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.

My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.

Every time I say I love you I mean it more than the last time.

Never ask why I love you, just accept that I do, and that I will for the rest of my life.