Quotes about Devotion
I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.
— George Eliot
It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
— GK Chesterton
A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man
— Mahatma Gandhi
Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.
— Oswald Chambers
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men can make an idol of the Bible.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.
— John Donne
Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.
— John Keats
Oh God, here's my Bible, Here's my money. Here's me. Use me, God.
— Gladys Aylward
Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'
— CS Lewis
Better and sweeter than health, or friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity, is the adorable will of our God.
— Hannah Whitall Smith