Consecration Quotes

• Consecration is not the act of our feelings but of our WILL.

  F.B. Meyer

  Feelings

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• The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.

  Brooke Westcott

  Men, Perfection, Saint

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• True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Destiny, Choices, Purpose

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• With complete consecration comes perfect peace.

  Watchman Nee

  Perfect, Christianity, Perfect Peace

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.321, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.

  Watchman Nee

  Jesus, Giving Up, Holiness

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.113, CLC Publications

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• I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.

  Watchman Nee

  God, Wisdom, Religious

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.83, CLC Publications

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• Consecration is only possible when we give up our will about EVERYTHING.

  F.B. Meyer

  Giving Up, Giving

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• Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Gods Will, Turns

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• True consecration to Christ simplifies life, for it leaves the management to Him.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Management, Christ, Simplify

  J. Sidlow Baxter (1994). “Awake, My Heart: Daily Devotional Studies for the Year”, p.88, Kregel Publications

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• Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Victory, Surrender, Unconditional

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• The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Roots, Fidelity, Steadfastness

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I know that with consecration on the part of believers, separation from the world, disentanglement from enslaving sins, and a mighty baptism of the Holy Spirit, the church would become a conquering power in the world, not by its constructed theology, not by its Sabbath services, not by its arguments to convince the intellect, but by its simple story of Jesus' love, by the Cross, the Cross--God's hammer, God's fire.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Jesus, Simple, Fire

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• Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we’re on our knees but while we’re on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us. Selfless acts of service and consecration refine our spirits remove the scales from our spiritual eyes and open the windows of heaven. By becoming the answer to someone’s prayer we often find the answer to our own.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Spiritual, Prayer, Eye

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• We tend to think of consecration only as yielding up, when divinely directed, our material possessions. But ultimate consecration is the yielding up of oneself to God. Heart, soul, and mind were the encompassing words of Christ in describing the first commandment, which is constantly, not periodically, operative (see Matt. 22:37). If kept, then our performances will, in turn, be fully consecrated for the lasting welfare of our souls (see 2 Ne. 32:9).

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Heart, Thinking, Soul

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• By becoming the answer to someone's prayer, we often find the answer to our own.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Prayer, Answers, Becoming

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• Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money's worth! He paid for ALL, and He has had but a fragment of our energy, time and earnings. By an act of consecration, let us ask Him to forgive the robbery of the past, and let us profess our desire to be henceforth utterly and only for Him- His slaves, owning no master other than Himself.

  F.B. Meyer

  Jesus, Past, Blood

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• Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees, but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Prayer, Feet, Doe

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• There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of radical change in the relation of the majority of our Christian people to mission work.

  Andy Murray

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

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• Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

  John Brown

  Life, God, Dedication

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• Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Joy, Men And Women

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• By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have slain Him; we have nailed Him there and crucified Him; but the Love in His eternal heart could not be extinguished. He willed to give us the very life we slew; to give us the very Food we destroyed; to nourish us with the very Bread we buried, and the very Blood we poured forth. He made our very crime into a happy fault; He turned a Crucifixion into a Redemption; a Consecration into a Communion; a death into Life Everlasting

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Beautiful, Heart, Mean

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• Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.

  William Ames

  Special, Ordinary, Inward

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

  George Eliot

  Baptism, Conscious, Ifs

  George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.251

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• The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

  Morris Graves

  Flow, Painting, Language

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• We have made covenants so to do solemn, sacred, holy covenants, pledging ourselves before gods and angels. We are under covenant to live the law of obedience. We are under covenant to live the law of sacrifice. We are under covenant to live the law of consecration. It is our privilege to consecrate our time, talents, and means to build up his kingdom. We are called upon to sacrifice, in one degree or another, for the furtherance of his work. Obedience is essential to salvation; so, also, is service; and so, also, are consecration and sacrifice.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Mean, Angel, Sacrifice

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