Top 100 Devotional Quotes
#1. By the time we were knit in our mothers' wombs, our lives were like open books before Him
every sentence read, every paragraph indented, every chapter titled, every page numbered. He knew it all in advance
all the sin, all the selfishness, every weakness. Yet He chose to love us
lavishly.
Beth Moore
#2. We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.
William Griffith Thomas
#3. We shall never arrive at true meekness by any other way than by humiliating ourselves and by honoring others from the depth of our hearts.
John Calvin
#4. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#5. Pure devotional service fries the seeds of material inclinations in our heart.
Radhanath Swami
#6. Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
Benjamin Haydon
#7. Why miss out on what God has in store for you while you're trying to get in on his plan for somebody else? Your plans are the best - for YOU - and so is your personality. You're so worth it
Nancy Rue
#9. God has equipped me for battle, and is by my side leading me to victory.
Virginia Martin
#11. And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?
Frederick Buechner
#12. Our ministries are strengthened, sometimes more than we realize, by our devotional life.
Billy Graham
#13. In the words of a pastor friend, "Christianity is less about holding on to God and more about God holding on to you.
Lori Hatcher
#14. There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#15. I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
Bayard Taylor
#16. No matter where you once were, no matter how dark your storm, God doesn't want you to remain there. Overcoming may not be easy, but it's possible when you ask your Father to battle for you.
Dana Arcuri
#17. I am an emotional I am an emotional, devotional, incandotional creature.
Eve Ensler
#18. It's entirely different waking up in the morning and praying. I read aloud six or seven different devotional books, one of which is the Bible and ask the Lord to be with me that day.
Pat Summerall
#19. God is calling you to relinquish your old habits and beliefs that are holding you back from being all He called you to be. To trust that He has something bigger and better in store for you.
Dana Arcuri
#20. Keep pressing forward and focused on your goals. Hard work does have a "pay day"!!-
Anita R. Sneed-Carter
#21. So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what he is noticing, continuous alertness to catch himself thinking or seeing, devotional attentiveness to the world he's moving through.
Allen Ginsberg
#22. Jesus never asked a question because HE needed to know the answer.
Christopher Bozung
#23. Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#24. You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.
Ayrton Senna
#25. What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
C.S. Lewis
#26. The more you are grateful for what you have, the more you can live fully in the present.
Dana Arcuri
#27. I have some devotional books you can look over. Learn to quote from them. Nothing discourages unwanted questions as much as a flow of pious bleating.
(Petyr Baelish to Sansa Stark)
George R R Martin
#28. There are times when we find ourselves pitching downwards, out of control. Yet God is always nearby ...
Shirley Corder
#29. I don't even know her yet..but if she could see me right now, I'd want her to know that I love her
Eric Ludy
#30. When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.
Jerry B. Jenkins
#31. In all spiritualities there is a contrast between the affective or13 devotional (bhakti) and the intellectual, anoetic type of experience (raja yoga).
Thomas Merton
#32. The spiritual life is a gift. It is a gift of the Holy Spirit, who lifts us up into the kingdom of God's love. But to say that being lifted up into the kingdom of love is a divine gift does not mean that we wait passively until the gift is offered to us.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#33. The Lord doesn't always make our paths smooth sailing, but He does make it possible to rise above adversity.
Dana Arcuri
#34. Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be a devotional novelist.
Richard Grossman
#35. He became a poet the way other men become monks: as a devotional practice, as an act of love, and as a lifelong commitment to the search for grace and transcendence.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#36. But one aspect of Revelation must not be allowed to exclude or to obscure another; and Christianity is dogmatical, devotional, practical all at once; it is esoteric and exoteric; it is indulgent and strict; it is light and dark; it is love, and it is fear.
John Henry Newman
#37. Love God. Live Called. It's not just devotional, it's vocational!
Brian Houston
#38. If we stop to ponder the paths of our feet, would we:
Allow our children to participate in sports or activities that will ultimately consume our family time, dictate our schedules, and cause us to miss church on a regular basis?
Lori Hatcher
#39. The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.
David Augsburger
#40. Please don't tell me you know just how I feel
you don't.
Shirley Corder
#42. Let your devotional life be the beacon that guides you through the tough terrain you will face.
Ravi Zacharias
#43. The Gospel does not say, "you must do good works." Rather, it fashions us into human beings, into creatures who cannot help serve God and fellow human beings. Without a doubt, a precious effect!
C.F.W. Walther
#44. Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it with devotional zeal. Feel yourself inside it: That is where God dwells.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#45. The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily and gracefully satisfied seem like a more refined pleasure. Their conception of creation is peaceful as a dream.
Henry David Thoreau
#46. Please don't preach at me - I feel bad enough already.
Shirley Corder
#47. To those who receive [Jesus], that is not only to believe in His existence but to believe that He brings life through salvation by His death and resurrection, God promises the right to become His own children.
Matthew J. Cochran
#48. The rewards had to come from the joy of puzzling out the work itself, and from the private awareness I held that I had chosen a devotional path and I was being true to it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#49. No matter what roller coaster ride we're on, the safety bar of God's character keeps us secure. Grab hold and don't let go.
Denise K. Loock
#50. In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.
Edgar Allan Poe
#51. The Bible strongly encourages us to get involved in discipleship.
Jim George
#52. My dear Arjuna, only by undivided devotional service can I be understood as I am, standing before you, and can thus be seen directly. Only in this way can you enter into the mysteries of My understanding.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#53. If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.
Jerry Bridges
#54. One must execute devotional service under the guidance of a devotee or directly under the guidance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is not possible, however, to train oneself without guidance from the spiritual master.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#55. The God who delivered Hezekiah and the children of Israel is the same God who is eager to act on my behalf.
Lori Hatcher
#56. One remarkable feature of the devotional masters is the incredible sense of uniform witness in the midst of such diverse personalities ... and the necessity of Christian simplicity is one of their most consistent themes.
Richard J. Foster
#57. When I work in the theater, you know you'll get this almost devotional, religious experience where you're breaking bread with everyone every day.
Adam Rapp
#58. I must take care above all that I cultivate communion with Christ, for though that can never be the basis of my peace - mark that - yet it will be the channel of it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#59. I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been devotional and my mind has been led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.
Elizabeth Fry
#60. Dear God, help us to be a living example of being Christ-centered. Purify the areas in our lives where we allowed the world and enemy to gain access. Please direct us into authentic truth so that all may see You in us.
Dana Arcuri
#61. Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.
Kripalvanandji
#62. By definition, a 'Sisterchick' is a 'friend who shares the deepest wonders of your heart, loves you like a sister, and gives you a reality check when you're being a brat.
Robin Jones Gunn
#63. Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who is about to be born. Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Frederick Buechner
#64. The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.
Marianne Williamson
#65. We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#66. The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
Leonard Ravenhill
#67. If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#68. Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.
Kiki Smith
#69. Enthusiasm and eagerness give life to our devotional service.
Radhanath Swami
#70. A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#71. We are crucified to the world, and the world must be as crucified to us. It esteems us as fools, let us esteem it as mad.
Francis De Sales
#72. If the Bible is not simply "revelation," neither is it simply a devotional aid, even the primary devotional aid.
N. T. Wright
#73. I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.
Barbara Pym
#74. Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed.
Radhanath Swami
#75. God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation.
Charles Brent
#76. The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.
Oswald Chambers
#77. God has already been in your tomorrow, and is working on your today.
Virginia Martin
#78. He is not all we would ask for (if we were honest), but it is precisely when we do not have what we would ask for, and only then, that we can clearly perceive His all-sufficiency.
Elisabeth Elliot
#79. I understand our mornings can be busy; however, if we cannot make time for God now, then when?
Ashley Ormon
#80. When we no longer have the strength to keep on walking, God will carry us. His strength is enough for you and I.
Dana Arcuri
#81. To commit myself to do the whole will of God; to be able to invite God to look into my heart and to know that He will find there no opposition to His will, nothing but deep love and a real desire to serve Him
this is what it means to be a sanctified child of God.
A.F. Harper
#82. One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
N. T. Wright
#83. Since I am determined to join myself to God, I find that I am also bound to be the enemy of his enemies. And since I find nothing that is more his enemy than the self that is me, I am constrained to hate this part of me more than any other.
Catherine Of Genoa
#84. Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is the Self. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely his real Self.
Sathya Sai Baba
#85. What we do determines much of what happens in the world to come, not just for ourselves, but for those around us.
Lori Hatcher
#86. Humility is not a part of devotional service, it is the heart of devotional service.
Radhanath Swami
#87. Open relating is transparent, godly, with a commitment of the heart, without expectancy and yet devotional; it is similar to what you have with God or Supreme Consciousness.
Vishwas Chavan
#88. Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#89. Hope is the light that flickers and burns eternally, when you remain steadfast with faith.
Virginia Martin
#90. Each Christian comes from a different background, upbringing, lineage, and environment. But in Christ we are unified.
Elizabeth George
#91. One's soul is made up of the unity of conscience and what compels you. That is, at the core, there is already a devotional relationship between these two. We just need to realize that and give them both the freedom to do what they wish.
Darrell Calkins
#92. Life is hard. If anyone tells you otherwise, they're lying. But life without faith is even harder.
Lori Hatcher
#93. If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
Ramakrishna
#94. The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works
Pope Pius X
#95. You are only willing to suffer the cost of your dream when you understand the value of your dream.
Deborah Brodie
#96. I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began reading books on cognitive therapy and neuroscience and started studying the devotional traditions of the church.
Gregory A. Boyd
#97. When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.
W. H. Auden
#98. The transcendental knowledge of devotional service is digested by the engyme of humility.
Radhanath Swami