Devotion Quotes

All is holy where devotion kneels.

O.W. Holmes.

The most illiterate man who is touched with devotion, and uses frequent exercises of it, contracts a certain greatness of mind, mingled with a noble simplicity, that raises him above others of the same condition, by this, a man in the lowest condition will not appear mean, or in the most splendid fortune insolent.

Johnson.

The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of a waterpot; but addressed from the temple, they are like rain from heaven.

Jeremy Taylor.

Satan rocks the cradle when we sleep at our devotions.

Bp. Hall.

It is of the utmost importance to season the passions of the young with devotion, which seldom dies in the mind that has received an early tincture of it. Though it may seem extinguished for a while by the cares of the world, the heats of youth, or the allurements of vice, it generally breaks out and discovers itself again as soon as discretion, consideration, age, or misfortunes have brought the man to himself. The fire may be covered and overlaid but can not be entirely quenched and smothered.

Addison.

All the duties of religion are eminently solemn and venerable in the eyes of children. But none will so strongly prove the sincerity of the parent; none so powerfully awaken the reverence of the child; none so happily recommend the instruction he receives, as family devotions, particularly those in which petitions for the children occupy a distinguished place.

Dwight.

The secret heart is devotion’s temple; there the saint lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen but not unaccepted.

Hannah More.

The inward sighs of humble penitence rise to the ear of heaven, when pealed hymns are scattered to the common air.

Joanna Baillie.

Solid devotions resemble the rivers which run under the earth they steal from the eyes of the world to seek the eyes of God; and it often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth, are best known in heaven.

Caussin.

The best and sweetest flowers in paradise, God gives to his people when they are on their knees in the closet. Prayer, if not the very gate of heaven, is the key to let us into its holiness and joys.

T. Brooks.

Once I sought a time and place for solitude and prayer; but now where’er I find thy face I find a closet there.