Quotes about Devotion

Whatever is at the center of your life is your god

Who are you going to live for — yourself or God?

God was thinking of you even before he made the world. In fact, that's why he created it! God designed this planet's environment just so we could live in it. We are the focus of his love and the most valuable of all his creation.

What pleases the LORD more: burnt offerings and sacrifices or obedience to his voice? It is better to obey than to sacrifice.

Use your whole body as a tool to do what is right for the glory of God.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.

Often we try to offer God partial obedience. We want to pick and choose the commands we obey. We make a list of the commands we like and obey those while ignoring the ones we think are unreasonable, difficult, expensive, or unpopular. I'll attend church but I won't tithe. I'll read my Bible but won't forgive the person who hurt me. Yet partial obedience is disobedience.

Real worship costs.

Another of Brother Lawrence's helpful ideas was to pray shorter conversational prayers continually through the day rather than trying to pray long sessions of complex prayers.

God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.

Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.

Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.