Humility is not a part of devotional service, it is the heart of devotional service.
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
Some spiritually alert parents hold early-morning devotionals with their families in their homes. They have a hymn, prayer, and then read and discuss the Book of Mormon.
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas.
When I'm actually getting off the bus, I still have my gospel playing. That's the way-to-the-game kind of music.
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
I listen to a lot of religion-based music, culturally rich music. Ethnic and world music. Music from Latin America has been influencing me in particular.
When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.
It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.
