Quotes about Devotion
Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I simply take him into my heart, and then put him into God's hand.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Many waters cannot quench love,' she whispered. 'Neither can floods drown it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
But I wanted to do it for you," Mr. Murry said. "That's what every parent wants.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The Mother asks the sacrifice of love.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Religious enthusiasm among students is now an embarrassment; belief in the authority of the Bible and the deity of Jesus Christ is treated as naivety to be enlightened rather than life to be nourished. Scholars in the arts, letters, and sciences who show signs of Christian devotion are likely to be shrugged off as simplistic and eccentric.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Unswerving devotion to your goals is success.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
— Evelyn Underhill
Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of praying well. To know how to speak to God is more than knowing how to speak to man. Not power with men, but power with God is the first thing. Jesus loves to teach us how to pray.
— Andrew Murray