Quotes about Devotion

Any time we look at our Maker with love, our importance in our own eyes diminishes, and we are filled with awe and humility and love for others.

Whether we see God or only seek to see God, I believe we add to the Divine Essence when we simply fasten our minds and lives onto God.

Whether the soul is in a state of seeking or finding, the way we honor God most is through unconditional surrender

Neglecting to bathe the ministry in prayer leaves us just workers, not worshipers. When we unite in prayer, there is incredible power.

When we learn to run to it and embrace it, when we can plan habitually to go without things for Christ's sake, then we've begun to live the life of reasonable service: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service" (Romans 12:1).

gets up very early each morning and spends two or three hours in prayer and then an hour or two reading the Bible.

We could read every book even written on prayer, but that won't make us people of prayer. We learn to pray by doing it.

Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That's what I want

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love -- every man works his oar voluntarily!

Every year that we grow in the Lord, Jesus Christ looms larger and greater in our eyes.