Spiritual Dedication Quotes

I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.

Too many are willing to sit at God’s table, but not work in his field.

Worship is an endeavor to bring to God that which costs you something.

I resolved to dedicate all my life to God, all my thoughts, and words, and actions; being thoroughly convinced, there was no medium; but that every part of my life (not some only) must either be a sacrifice to God, or myself, that is, in effect, to the devil. Can any serious person doubt of this, or find a medium between serving God and serving the devil?

Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.

The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: 'Receive the Holy Ghost.' And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.

This Christianity is not a cultural thing. It is not something that should be just a small part of your life; it is not something that you do on Sunday... Christianity is not about you being just like the world all the time and then coming to church on Sunday. If that is your Christianity... you are not Christian.

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.

To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassin g. It is no lukewarm endeavor. It is total commitment of our very being-physicall y, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually-to a love of the Lord.

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.

I take my religion seriously.

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

I did it through our ministries. We had ordination and basically understanding there ought - to be ordained that God has set apart, for the purposes of ministry. This is an important thing because of that defining moment, when I held that word up, I said I want to spend the rest of my life helping people.

We cannot be part-time Christians! We should seek to live our faith at every moment of every day.

He--the country parson--is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy.

Are we ready to be Christians full-time, showing our commitment by word and deed?

It's easy for me not to go to Mass on the road. But I've made a fundamental decision. I'm going to be dedicated. I'm going to make the time. I'm going to get up, if that means getting up at seven on a Sunday morning before a day game and do it, I'm going to do it.

Do not forget Him but think on Him often. Adore Him continually. Live and die with Him. This is the glorious work of a Christian; in a word, this is our profession. If we do not know it, we must learn it.

There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and the Christianity that wrestles with whether the kids should play soccer on Sunday morning.

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

I'm not a Christian. My participation in music is so full blast, 24 hours a day. And that's my religion. I think I'm as spiritual as the pope, because I spend as much time in my spirituality as he does.

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate.

The work is demanding, the impact everlasting. This is no time for 'summer soldiers' in the army of the Lord.