Quotes about Devotion
We do it by love. Christ as crucified is the great object of our love, or should so be; for he is therein unto sinners "altogether lovely." Hence one of the ancients cried out, "My love is crucified, and why do I stay behind?" In the death of Christ do his love, his grace, his condescension, most gloriously shine forth.
- John Owen
A truly gracious, praying frame (wherein we pray always) is utterly inconsistent with the love of or reserve for any sin. To
- John Owen
Whatever impeacheth the universality of obedience in one thing overthrows its sincerity in all things.
- John Owen
Intent on prayer, she has a dumb girl's sweet piercing way of putting her whole body into one thing at a time.
- John Updike
There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lord had nothing better to do than exist!
- CS Lewis
God is merciful to those who want to love Him and who have placed their hopes in Him.
- Francis de Sales
Following Jesus isn't something you can do at night where no one notices. It's a twenty-four-hour-a-day commitment that will interfere with your life. That's not the small print—that's a guarantee.
- Kyle Idleman
Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.
- CS Lewis
Do not become more useful than God.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Faith is verification by the heart confession by the tongue action by the limbs.
- Anonymous
Faith is obedience nothing else.
- Emil Brunner
What does Sunday, the day of the Lord, mean for us? It is a day for rest and for family, but first of all a day for Him.
- Pope Benedict XVI