Commitment To God Quotes Page 2

If you're not willing to give up everything for Christ, are you willing to be made willing?

What's closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you'll talk about Him.

Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight;

rather, He made all creation witness to the presence of its Maker.

In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it's working for my good, And it's building my testimony.

The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.

See your weakness as a reason to pray the more, it should not be the reason for sadness or to abandon your post.

Faith is not limited to affirming the existence of God.

No, faith tells us that God loves us and demands a loving response. This response is given through love for human beings, and that is what we mean by a commitment to God and to our neighbor.

It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.

If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either.

So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius;

or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'-and proved it.

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

God has created me to do Him some definite service;

He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another, I have my mission ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.

The foundation of all our confidence is found in the Blessed Virgin Mary.

God has committed to her the treasury of all good things, in order that everyone may know that through her are obtained every hope, every grace, and all salvation. For this is His will: That we obtain everything through Mary.

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor everything equally with delight and rejoicing, and welcome with open arms what others dread and avoid.

When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him.

Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.

Today let me reassure you, God knows right where you are and He knows how to get you to where you need to be. Even when things don’t go the way you planned, His hand is on you.

Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

Because God is faithful, He can be trusted fully to completely carry out His commitments to us in Christ.

God will test you because He wants you to mature.

He wants you to develop a walk with Him that is not based on your fluctuating emotions, but on your commitment to Him as you learn to walk by faith.

Refusing to gossip is a beautiful decision to make.

It not only creates richer friendships but, more importantly, it makes our relationship with the Lord more authentic and believable. We honor God when we honor each other.

Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.

If you feel stuck, bring your whole self to Christ, not just the problem, but you. Ask God to change your heart. Commit yourself to pray to that end. It's God's heart to give good gifts to His children.

What is possible for you in Christ Jesus depends on your capacity to believe.

As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.

We only have victory over satan when we walk in the Spirit in Christ Jesus.

I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country.

Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken.

The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration.

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart.

He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.

I'm here today because God has brought me here.

Jesus has brought me here...I'm with an amazing team. I believe He perfectly placed me in the right spot at the right time.

You are a paintbrush in hands of the Artist.

God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.