Quotes about Devotion

Will you, or will you not, quit me?' I now demanded in a sudden passion, advancing close to him. 'I would prefer not to quit you', he replied, gently emphasizing the not.

He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, who built him a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent the whole latter portion of his life on its summit, hoisting his food from the ground with a tackle; in him we have a remarkable instance of a dauntless stander-of-mast-heads;

I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's, or mine own. Yet this is nothing; I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?

I would love God even if he damned me, because he was so gracious to others.

Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'

God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.

Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.

If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us.

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.

Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.