Quotes about Devotion

How dare you say it's nothing to me? Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The great symbol of Christianity means sacrifice and no one who calls himself a Christian can evade this stark fact.

He leaned toward her father. " 'Tis true, I am a murderer, a liar, and a thief. 'Tis equally true that I will use whatever monstrous talents I possess to keep your daughter at my side. You can take Avalene to a convent at the ends of the earth and I will find her and steal her away again. I will lie to God, himself, to free her. I will protect her with my life, and I will murder anyone who threatens her.

He fully discharged the obligations of every relationship that He sustained, either to God or to man.

A due apprehension of God's sovereignty promotes the spirit of worship, provides an incentive to practical godliness, and inspires zeal in service.

True happiness consists only in the enjoyment of God.

This work of keeping the heart is the hardest of all. "To shuffle over religious duties with a loose and heedless spirit, will cost no great pains; but to set thyself before the Lord, and tie up thy loose and vain thoughts to a constant and serious attendance upon Him: this will cost something!

We heartily agree with Charnock: "In that one word love, God hath wrapped up all the devotion He requires of us.

I'm starting to think that Jesus does love football.

In the first of these senses, neither Christ nor the Christian is supposed to be the world's servant. Jesus is obedient, not to the world but to the Father. He is the servant of God, not of men, and we too are called to be servants of God.