Quotes about Devotion

Many waters cannot quench love,' she whispered. 'Neither can floods drown it.

But I wanted to do it for you," Mr. Murry said. "That's what every parent wants.

The Mother asks the sacrifice of love.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

Religious enthusiasm among students is now an embarrassment; belief in the authority of the Bible and the deity of Jesus Christ is treated as naivety to be enlightened rather than life to be nourished. Scholars in the arts, letters, and sciences who show signs of Christian devotion are likely to be shrugged off as simplistic and eccentric.

Unswerving devotion to your goals is success.

The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of praying well. To know how to speak to God is more than knowing how to speak to man. Not power with men, but power with God is the first thing. Jesus loves to teach us how to pray.

Unless we are willing to pay the price, to sacrifice time and attention and seemingly legitimate or necessary tasks for the sake of the spiritual gifts, we need not look for much power from above in our work.

We prove the value we attach to things by the time we devote to them.

Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work, work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.