Quotes about Devotion

As we give ourselves entirely to God for His work, we will feel that nothing less than these great promises is what we need. Nothing less is what we may confidently expect.

The doing of God's will would then be, instead of exhausting, our meat and drink, our nourishment and refreshment and strength. The LORD is good unto them that

Faith is obedience at home and looking to the Master; obedience is faith going out to do His will.

I must have the Holy Spirit sanctifying my whole inner life if I am really to live for God's glory.

When Jude says, "Pray in the Spirit and keep in the love of God," he expresses the same thought as Paul, namely that the Holy Spirit wants to cherish us in God's love in the same manner that the sun warms us each day.

Let's yield ourselves to take up the appointment the Savior gives us. Let's concentrate on His relationship to us as Master and no longer start each new day with thoughts of comfort, or joy, or blessing. Let the first thought be: I belong to the Master.

nothing can save us but the restoration of our lost humility, the original and only true relationship of the creature to its God.

Humility is not so much a virtue along with the others, but is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God and allows Him, as God, to do all.

Just think of the Christians around you. I do not speak of nominal Christians, or of professing Christians, but I speak of hundreds and thousands of honest, earnest Christians who are not living a life in the power of God or to His glory. So little power, so little devotion or consecration to God, so little perception of the truth that a Christian is a man utterly surrendered to God's will!

Do you love Christ? Do you long to be in Christ, and not like Him?

The nearer we are to God, the less we are in ourselves, but the stronger we are in Him. The more I see of God, the less I become, the deeper is my confidence in Him. To become lowly, let God fill eye and heart. Where God is all, there is no time or place for man.

Do not be thinking of how little you have to bring God, but of how much He wants to give you. Just place yourself before, and look up into, His face; think of His love, His wonderful, tender, pitying love. Just tell Him how sinful and cold and dark all is: it is the Father's loving heart will give light and warmth to yours. O do what Jesus says: Just shut the door, and pray to thy Father, which is in secret.