Quotes about Devotion
He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
— Bill Hybels
Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.
— CS Lewis
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
— Calvin Coolidge
Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.
— James Faust
We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.
— Brother Lawrence
Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every sphere of culture.
— John Piper
In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.
— John Ortberg
We're commanded by God to worship God with our mind.
— Eric Metaxas
I remember the Lord speaking into my heart and saying, 'Jeremy, I want you to stand up and worship me.'
— Jeremy Camp
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
— Teresa of Avila
we can live without sex, but we cant live without love.
— Shane Claiborne
Lord, steady our feet when the world tries to rock and shake our faith. When materialism beckons with coy hands, steady our feet. When lust sashays within us, steady our feet. When fear tugs at our knees, steady our faith. Show us your goodness, and steady our hearts in you. Amen.
— Shane Claiborne