Quotes about Devotion

Do you love Christ? Do you long to be in Christ, and not like Him?

The nearer we are to God, the less we are in ourselves, but the stronger we are in Him. The more I see of God, the less I become, the deeper is my confidence in Him. To become lowly, let God fill eye and heart. Where God is all, there is no time or place for man.

Do not be thinking of how little you have to bring God, but of how much He wants to give you. Just place yourself before, and look up into, His face; think of His love, His wonderful, tender, pitying love. Just tell Him how sinful and cold and dark all is: it is the Father's loving heart will give light and warmth to yours. O do what Jesus says: Just shut the door, and pray to thy Father, which is in secret.

Prayer is the one hand with which we grasp the invisible; fasting, the other, with which we let loose and cast away the visible.

Do not serve God half-heartedly. Pray that the Holy Spirit will lead you to the wonder of a life wholly surrendered to God's service.

In Your death I would live daily; in Your life I would die daily.

The relationship among the members of the church depends on united and unceasing prayer. This relationship is spiritual and can only be maintained by unceasing prayer.

Your will be done": Let these be the most profound and most exalted words of your life, in daily submission to the will of God.

We prove the value we attach to things by the time we devote to them. The Kingdom should be first every day, and all the day.

God's love to me, and my love to God, and my love to my fellowmen. The three are one; you cannot separate them.

Though in its beginnings prayer is so simple that the feeble child can pray, yet it is at the same time the highest and holiest work to which man can rise.

We ought not to please ourselves. For even Christ pleased not Himself. Self-denial is the law of his life.