Quotes about Devotion

Being a person of prayer is the most important calling in one's life.

Jesus does not want us to walk in a false humility that minimizes how much He enjoys loving us or how much He wants us to enjoy being loved by Him.

The only thing that will ultimately break the power of sin is passion for Jesus. The only thing that will guard me from being entrapped by sin is being entranced by Jesus.

Prayer was as fundamental an element in the life of Jesus as breathing. He inhaled his Father's presence so he could exhale his Father's will.

She loved him for his own sake, and therefore she would rather have suffered his absence if he flourished than to have enjoyed his presence if he languished; her sorrow over his avoidable languishing would overshadow her delight in his presence. For a lover, it is more blessed to give than to receive, even when giving pierces the lover's heart.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it.

Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts; then it is real and pure.

Somebody loves us, too - God Himself. We have been created to love and to be loved.

Love, to be real, must cost - it must hurt - it must empty us of self.

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.