Devotional Life Quotes

The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life. ~ John Ortberg

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

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

We have not advanced very far in our spiritual lives if we have not encountered the basic paradox of freedom, to the effect that we are most free when we are bound. But not just any way of being bound will suffice; what matters is the character of our binding. The one who would like to be an athlete, but who is unwilling to discipline his body by regular exercise and by abstinence, is not free to excel on the field or the track. His failure to train rigorously and to live abstemiously denies him the freedom to go over the bar at the desired height, or to run with the desired speed and endurance. With one concerted voice the giants of the devotional life apply the same principle to the whole of life with the dictum: Discipline is the price of freedom. ~ Elton Trueblood

Our devotional life with God is more like the planting of a garden. When we arise from sowing into the secret place, we will not usually be able to point to immediate results or benefits. What we sow today will require an entire season of growth before the results are manifest. ~ Bob Sorge

Change your thought life to a prayer life. ~ Carla Mcdougal

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

A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions
being freer and more at ease as human beings. ~ Ingvar Kamprad

Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it. ~ Martial

Some people make their best music when life is horrible. ~ Vince Staples

We don't always get what we want out of life. It's how we handle what's left that matters. – Matt Jacobs (hero) ~ Lori Borrill

When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel. ~ Anton Chekhov

Looking at the doctrine of Darwinism, which undergirded my atheism for so many years, it didn't take me long to conclude that it was simply too far-fetched to be credible. I realized that if I were to embrace Darwinism and its underlying premise of naturalism, I would have to believe that: 1. Nothing produces everything 2. Non-life produces life 3. Randomness produces fine-tuning 4. Chaos produces information 5. Unconsciousness produces consciousness 6. Non-reason produces reason ... The central pillars of evolutionary theory quickly rotted away when exposed to scrutiny. ~ Lee Strobel

Do you know something? I've got this funny feeling fate arranged for you to enter my life for the express purpose of tormenting me. ~ Lindsay Armstrong

I'm happy and I have a great life. ~ Gloria Estefan

You can only derive pleasure from work when it is in the sphere of your calling ~ Sunday Adelaja

Such is life; and we are but as grass that is cut down, and put into the oven and baked. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself. ~ Jim Caviezel

Some people don't want to hurt your feelings. ~ Nirav Sanchaniya

Permission to speak, sir?" the chief of boat of the Alexandria said.

"When do you ask, COB?" Vancel replied. "Sure."

"Hate the situation that we're in, sir," the COB said. "Really getting to hate fish. Don't want to think about what's happened ashore, sir. But this Wolf Squadron thing is like the best soap opera ever."



"And turns out she got knocked up by sitting where the guy had spewed in his sleep!"

"No fuckin' way!"

"That has got to be the lamest excuse ever! 'No, seriously, Mom, I got pregnant from a life raft deck! ~ John Ringo

Sissy,travelling down the road with you was all I have ever wanted in life.
The beauty of it! No matter how long this takes, I'll wait. ~ Josephine Hart

We are all born idealists, until life fucks us all. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

Books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought. ~ Lawrence Durrell

Don't force yourself to do something you don't like for people to like you. ~ Laina Ducta

For instance, if He wants your life, what are you going to do, eat spinach and go to pilates? ~ Matt Chandler

Life is an illusion of the reality which we want or wish ~ Saurabh Mathur

I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction. ~ Tom Brokaw

Miles away from everthing and everyone I've ever known or loved. I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to ... ~ Justin Cronin

A life without risk is one where I tell myself I'm not worthy of taking a chance. ~ Courtney Milan

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago. ~ John Updike

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition. ~ Randeep Hooda

The reason for privacy is not so that people will not know you go to the bathroom. It's to allow certain things to go on that you don't want other people to know about, when all is said and done. But the things I don't want other people to know about are not my sex life. ~ Samuel R. Delany

'What would Jesus do?' or 'What would He have me do?' are the paramount personal questions of this life. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

RVM Thoughts for Today
Do you know that you can CHOOSE to be Happy or Unhappy? happiness doesn't just Happen ! It is a Choice you make. ~ R.v.m.

I used to know Brian Howard well
a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous
constantly attacking people with his fists in public places
so I kept clear of him. He was consumptive but the immediate cause of his death was a broken heart. ~ Evelyn Waugh

We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small. ~ Isabel Allende

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

So what's the test?"
"Ah, that's the trick of it. It's not a test. It's real life. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold

Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke. ~ Willard Scott

Making and cheerfully keeping our covenants gives validity and life to the vital sacred and saving ordinances we need to receive in order to obtain all that the Father hath. ~ Linda K. Burton

I think that life is just too sweet to be bitter. ~ Kris Carr

Children should be living carefree lives and always smiling – laughing, filled with peace and harmony; not worrying about the troubles of what tomorrow may bring. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's. ~ Emmanuelle Seigner

Conscious breathing anchors us into the nowness of life and gives us a fresh outlook, no different from how a baby observes reality without mental commentary. The baby enjoys watching the world and human activity without any limiting mental concepts spoiling his or her perception. Naturally, we all have to evolve from the helpless state of babyhood, but to be able to tap into that wonderful ability and truly BE in the moment is immensely liberating. ~ Christopher Dines

Time may be defined as " dimension governed by activity." Dimension diminishes with inactivity so does the value of time. ~ Moutasem Algharati