Quotes about Devotion

It can be said, without fear of error, that our meditation is as good as our faith.

But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact pleases You.

The mercy of God demands to be known and recognized and set apart from everything else and praised and adored in joy.

Get warm any way you can, and love God and pray.

I don't even need to know precisely what I am doing, except that I am acting for the love of God.

Freedom is perfect when no other love can impede our desire to love God

I need my heart to be moved by you.

We do not see God in contemplation - we know Him by love: for his pure love and when we taste the experience of loving God for his own sake alone, we know by experience who and what he is.

As soon as one is conscious of the presence of the Master, one must, in all passivity, abandon the work to Him.

For it seems to me that the first responsibility of a man of faith is to make his faith really part of his own life, not by rationalizing it but by living it.

Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.

My chief care should not be to find pleasure or success, health or life or money or rest or even things like virtue and wisdom—still less their opposites, pain, failure, sickness, death. But in all that happens, my one desire and my one joy should be to know: "Here is the thing that God has willed for me. In this His love is found, and in accepting this I can give back His love to Him and give myself with it to Him. For in giving myself I shall find Him and He is life everlasting.