Quotes about Devotion
The question is not if we worship, but what we give our hearts to worship.
— Paul David Tripp
Joyful, perseverant obedience only ever grows in the soil of worship.
— Paul David Tripp
The spiritual reality for many of us is that the one thing is not the Lord. And the danger in that reality is this: your one thing will control your heart, and whatever controls your heart will exercise inescapable influence over your words, choices, and actions. Your one thing will become that which shapes and directs your responses to the situations and relationships of your daily life. If the Lord isn't your one thing, the thing that is your one thing will be your functional lord.
— Paul David Tripp
Grace doesn't make it okay for you to live for you. No, grace frees you to experience the joy of living for One greater than you.
— Paul David Tripp
Spiritual adultery occurs when I give the love that belongs to God alone to something or someone else.
— Paul David Tripp
Prayer always forsakes the kingdom of self for the kingdom of God,
— Paul David Tripp
We're all spiritually promiscuous, running from lover to lover, giving the loyalty of our hearts to things other than God.
— Paul David Tripp
Prayer is abandoning your place in the center of your world and daily surrendering that place to God alone as an act of heartfelt worship.
— Paul David Tripp
Your biggest need (and mine) is a fully restored relationship with God. We
— Paul David Tripp
May your kingdom so rule my heart that stepping over your boundaries would no longer be attractive to me.
— Paul David Tripp
God designed us to be worshipers. Everything we do is the product of worship. We are always giving our hearts to something, and if it's not God, it's something God created. All
— Paul David Tripp
You can't divide human beings into the "those who make sacrifices" and "those who don't." We all carry things in our hearts for which we are very willing to make sacrifices. The issue that divides us is for what, or for whom, are we willing to make these personal sacrifices.
— Paul David Tripp