Quotes about Devotion

The Jesus Creed teaches us that a disciple's responsibility is to love God by following Jesus. You only follow someone else when your own lights or sense of direction are not good enough.

And I always do this aloud, or at least at a mumble level, making sure I am doing more than just glancing at the psalms or prayers. Glancing at prayers is the fastest path toward vain repetitions I know of. For that reason, the church has always advocated reading our prayers aloud so we will go more slowly and concentrate more on what we are saying. Prayer books are designed to be read aloud.

A Christian is someone who follows Jesus by devoting his or her One. Life to the kingdom vision of Jesus.

Knowing God's love, knowing God's goodness, and learning to embrace those attributes of God prompt us to pray.

The Psalter is responsible for creating the prayers in the church. It remains the core of all Christian prayers. Whenever we pray with psalms, we are joining the universal Church in prayer.

Prayer was and is both a spontaneous act and a recitative

If you compare the written prayers from the psalms, the Lord's Prayer, or those we find in the prayer books of the church, one thing will immediately strike any reader: The prayers from those sources are theologically rich and aesthetically appropriate. I cannot always say this of the spontaneous prayers of many Christians—and I am not impugning their motives or questioning their hearts.

The first principle of spiritual formation is this: A spiritually formed person loves God and others.

Love is something worth suffering for...

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.

God gives us time. And who has time for God?