Quotes about Devotion
It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.
— John Calvin
When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.
— John Piper
If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.
— John Stott
It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.
— Joseph Addison
Anything that does not draw us closer to God takes us away from him.
— Joseph Wirthlin
People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.
— Karen Kingsbury
To run hard after holiness is another way of running hard after God.
— Kevin DeYoung
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
When we're not following God's will, our sacrifices aren't acceptable to Him. What God wants most is for us to be broken before Him, walk with Him, know Him, and obey Him.
— Sarah Sundin
The highest form of prayer is to the goodness of God. . . . God only desires that our soul cling to him with all of its strength, in particular, that it clings to his goodness.
— Ann Voskamp
God isn't a talent scout looking for someone who is "good enough" or "strong enough." He is looking for someone with a heart set on Him, and He will do the rest.
— Vance Havner
Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?
— George Whitefield