Quotes about Devotion
It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
- GK Chesterton
A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man
- Mahatma Gandhi
Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.
- Oswald Chambers
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men can make an idol of the Bible.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.
- John Donne
Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.
- John Keats
Oh God, here's my Bible, Here's my money. Here's me. Use me, God.
- Gladys Aylward
Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don't compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.
- James Franco
Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'
- CS Lewis
Better and sweeter than health, or friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity, is the adorable will of our God.
- Hannah Whitall Smith