Quotes about Devotion
Ultimately, intellectual work of this sort is its own reward, because it is focused on the only One whose recognition is important, the One before whom all hearts are open.
- Mark Noll
Your future and mine are determined by this one thing: seeking after the Lord.
- Jim Cymbala
When we come to Christ, we're no longer the most important person in the world to us; Christ is. Instead of living only for ourselves, we have a higher goal: to live for Jesus.
- Billy Graham
Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
- John Calvin
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
- Jonathan Edwards
Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
- Francis de Sales
Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing has to change the way we live.
- Mother Angelica
The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels.
- Kathryn Kuhlman
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- St. Augustine
Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.
- Ellen White
God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something.
- Mother Angelica
I like marriage. The idea.
- Toni Morrison