Quotes about Devotion
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
— John Bunyan
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
— John Bunyan
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart.
— John Bunyan
I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?
— John Bunyan
I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.
— John Bunyan
The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.
— John Bunyan
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
— John Bunyan
We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer.Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God,setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.
— John Calvin
He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.
— John Calvin
If we are not our own, but the Lord's, it is clear to what purpose all our deeds must be directed. We are not our own, therefore neither our reason nor our will should guide us in our thoughts and actions. We are not our own, therefore we should not seek what is only expedient to the flesh. We are not our own, therefore let us forget ourselves and our own interests in as far as possible.
— John Calvin
The Holy Spirit has consecrated us as temples of God. We, therefore, must let the glory of God shine through us, and we must not pollute ourselves with sin.
— John Calvin
The Institutes is not only the classic of Christian theology; it is also a model of Christian devotion.
— John Calvin