Quotes about Devotion

I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer.Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God,setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.

If we are not our own, but the Lord's, it is clear to what purpose all our deeds must be directed. We are not our own, therefore neither our reason nor our will should guide us in our thoughts and actions. We are not our own, therefore we should not seek what is only expedient to the flesh. We are not our own, therefore let us forget ourselves and our own interests in as far as possible.

The Holy Spirit has consecrated us as temples of God. We, therefore, must let the glory of God shine through us, and we must not pollute ourselves with sin.

The Institutes is not only the classic of Christian theology; it is also a model of Christian devotion.

So, too, David, after he has prayed the ways of God be made known to him so that he may walk in his truth, immediately adds, "Unite my heart to fear thy name" [Ps. 86:11; cf. Ps. 119:33]. By these words he means that even well-disposed persons have been subject to so many distractions that they readily vanish or fall away unless they are strengthened to persevere.

No one, indeed, will voluntarily and willingly devote himself to the service of God unless he has previously tasted his paternal love, and been thereby allured to love and reverence Him.

The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.