Quotes about Devotion
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
— Joel 2:12
So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.
— Joel 2:13
Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.
— Amos 4:5
For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
— Amos 5:4
Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
— Amos 5:23
Then the men feared the LORD greatly, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows to Him.
— Jonah 1:16
Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
— Jonah 2:8
But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!”
— Jonah 2:9
So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
— Jonah 4:2
Though each of the peoples may walk in the name of his god, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
— Micah 4:5
With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
— Micah 6:6
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
— Micah 7:18