#devotion

The Bible is teh means through which we are introduced to Jesus and invited to follow Him in the life of humility and service. Secured by the knowledge that in Christ, our origin... and destination is God, we will yield the fruit of service to God. This is the "so what" of our Bible reading. Does it shape our spirits in love and humility? Does it lead us more fully into life with God? (Life with God, p. 34-35) ↗

— Richard Foster

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This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive and feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad. ↗

— Roman Payne

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It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

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I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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That's my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that's where my home is. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

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Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic? ↗

— Lily Tomlin

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I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source. ↗

— Doris Day

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I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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