Quotes about Devotion
I would love God even if he damned me, because he was so gracious to others.
— Charles Spurgeon
Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'
— Adrian Rogers
God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.
— CS Lewis
Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
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.
— St. Isidore of Seville
Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
— Billy Sunday
As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.
— AB Simpson
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.
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book, and I as rarely felt the want of any other.
— William Wilberforce
O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.
— Samuel Rutherford
Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want to grow in love, come back to the Eucharist, come back to that Adoration.
— Mother Teresa
Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.
— AW Tozer