Quotes about Devotion

The extent of our love to the Lord is shown by the way we obey His commands. Love does all that it can to make the loved one happy.

Jesus gave up His life to God, and by this He taught us that the only thing that life is worth living for is to give it back to God, even unto death.

It was as if everything conspired to keep him from prayer.

Do not try to stir and arouse faith from within. How often I have tried to do that, and made a fool of myself! You cannot stir up faith from the depths of your heart. Leave your heart, and look into the face of Christ, and listen to what He tells you about how He will keep you.

And so He teaches us two lessons of deep importance about prayer. The one is that faith needs a life of prayer in which to grow and keep strong. The other is that prayer needs fasting for its full and perfect development.

The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will the blessing be that prayer will bring to myself.

Nothing short of conformity to Christ—a life wholly dedicated to God—should satisfy you.

Resolve: "I will engage in a religious life only for the love of God; and I will endeavor to act only for Him; whatever becomes of me I will always continue to act purely for the love of God.

Who can say what power a church could develop and exercise if it gave itself to the work of prayer day and night for the coming of the kingdom, for God's power on His servants, and to His Word for the glorifying of God in the salvation of souls?

The effective prayer of faith comes from a life given up to the will and the love of God. Not as a result of what I try to be when praying, but because of what I am when I'm not praying, is my prayer answered by God.

There is but one way of being delivered from this life of self. We must follow Christ, set our hearts upon Him, listen to His teachings, give ourselves up every day, that He may be all to us, and by the power of Christ the denial of self will be a blessed, unceasing reality.

Let this, then, be our first lesson: the presence of God is the chief thing, in our devotions.