Quotes about Devotion
Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely to God.
- Alphonsus Liguori
Prayer is more than a wish; it is the voice of faith directed to God.
- Billy Graham
Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.
- Brennan Manning
Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.
- Charles Spurgeon
The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.
- Charles Spurgeon
To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.
- Charles Spurgeon
Satan sometimes suggests that an offering will satisfy God, when in fact He is demanding our all.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Do you suppose that God has any need of our works? What God needs is the resoluteness of our will.
- Teresa of Avila
He that seeks here any other thing but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.
- Thomas a Kempis
Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.
- Thomas a Kempis
I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.
- Thomas Merton
When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.
- Mahatma Gandhi