Lisa Bonet Quotes

Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!

Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

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

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.

Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.

I believe in God big time and I'm proud to say I believe in God.

The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!

I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.

If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.

The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.

Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

This room is a testimony that there are men who want to be a man for God and a man of God.

Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.

Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of the church.