Are we Devoted?

"We're so subnormal, if we ever become normal, we'll think we're abnormal! God help us..."

- Leonard Ravenhill

"I have said since I was 12 years old that I will never, ever lower the standard. Even if it sends me to hell, I will not lower it!"

- Katherine Booth, daughter of William Booth, founder of The Salvation Army

"People invent doctrines 'cause they can't live up to the standard. They have wonderful doctrines that say, 'You can go to heaven, though you live a life of sin, and you don't have to be changed as long as you get "USDA Choice Christian" stamped on the front of your head when you say the sinners prayer!' "

- Keith Green

"It doesn't say any place in the bible that you should go out and witness - it says that you should be a witness, going into all nations and making disciples of men. Perverted Christianity today tries to make everything a deed, a little packaged thing. We have 'Instant Quaker Oats', instant tea, and now we've got 'Instant Christian' - just add prayer and stir! Everything's instant. We've got instant witnessing - you wear your Jesus t-shirt, bumper sticker, belt, you wear your Jesus underwear and use your Jesus toothpaste! It's crazy! A truly devoted person doesn't need paraphernalia to be a witness... He's got the Holy Spirit."

- Keith Green

"...Nothing short of this standard is devotion in you. Bear it in mind that no particular act, or zeal, or gushings of emotion, or resolutions to change, or promises of future obedience constitute devotion.

For devotion is that state of the will in which the mind is swallowed up in God and He is the object of it's supreme affection. In which we not only live and move in God but for God. In other words, devotion is the state of the mind in which the attentions are diverted from self and self seeking and directed towards God. The thoughts, purposes, desires, affections and emotions all hanging upon, and devoted to Him."

- Charles G. Finney