Quotes about Devotion
Our attentiveness to the Father is equally as important as the Father's attentiveness to us.
- Dutch Sheets
To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone. When she has once realized that no one other than God is capable of receiving her completely for Himself and that it is sinful theft toward God to give oneself completely to one other than Him, then the surrender is no longer difficult and she becomes free of herself.
- Edith Stein
I want - I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that -categories like that- won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.
- Edith Wharton
She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it. It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades.
- Edith Wharton
But it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.
- Edith Wharton
It's rather clever of her to have made a specialty of devoting herself to dull people—the field is such a large one, and she has it practically to herself.
- Edith Wharton
Not for the world would he have made a significant to her, though it seemed to him that his life hung on her next gesture.
- Edith Wharton
What is most important is that you look away from yourself to the true God. No matter who you are or where you are from, you will be able to know him and worship him. And when you worship him, it means you are accepted into his presence.
- Edward Welch
When the fear of the Lord matures in you, Christ becomes irresistible.
- Edward Welch
The basic idea is to focus on the matchless worth of the Lord God and then get connected to him.
- Edward Welch
The thing or person you trust in is actually the object of your worship.
- Edward Welch
Sometimes we would prefer to die for Jesus than to live for Him.
- Edward Welch