Quotes about Devotion
I regret the immaturity with which I approached the problems and tasks of the ministry but I do not regret the years devoted to the parish.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Surely love is both work and wages.
- Richard Baxter
Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I long for such a longing heart (648).
- Richard Baxter
The sanctification of your studies is when they are devoted to God and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.
- Richard Baxter
Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).
- Richard Baxter
The ministerial work must be managed purely for God and the salvation of the people, and not for any private ends of our own.
- Richard Baxter
He may be a Christian by common profession; but, in a saving sense, no man is a Christian, in whose soul any thing hath a greater and higher interest than God the Father, and the Mediator (352).
- Richard Baxter
If and worms'-meat must have such respect, think, then, what reverence thou shouldst approach thy Maker (569).
- Richard Baxter
It is one thing to believe in God's power, it is quite another to live your life in obedient response to an all-powerful God.
- Richard Blackaby
He also came to realize that he had been so busy attempting to do things for God he had not spent time enjoying fellowship with God.
- Richard Blackaby
It is difficult to talk with God each day and continue to sin.
- Richard Blackaby
All we can give back and all God wants from any of us is to humbly and proudly return the product that we have been given—which is ourselves!
- Fr. Richard Rohr