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Consecration is not the act of our feelings but of our WILL. -- F.B. Meyer
Consecration is only possible when we give up our will about EVERYTHING. -- F.B. Meyer
Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory! -- Neal A. Maxwell
With complete consecration comes perfect peace. -- Watchman Nee
The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God. -- Alexander MacLaren
The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream. -- William Wordsworth
Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place. -- William Ralph Inge
If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris. -- Oscar de la Renta
From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love To long for, pureness to desire, a mount Of consecration it were good to scale. -- Jean Ingelow
He [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin] was thrilled with the idea that through work in the world human beings were participating in the ongoing extension and consecration of God's creation. -- Robert Ellsberg
Lord, by the words of consecration the substance of the bread and wine is converted into the substance of your Body and Blood. All powerful Lord, say over me the word which will change me into You. -- Anthony Mary Claret
Obedience is a consecration of the heart, chastity of the body, and poverty of all worldly goods to the Love and Service of God. Blessed indeed are the obedient, for God will never permit them to go astray. -- Saint Francis de Sales
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
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
If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest services Christianity has rendered the world has been its consecration of poverty, and its elevation of labor to the dignity of a moral duty. -- Orestes Brownson
If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not absorbed by it, remember that the one power whereby you can so act is, that all shall be consecrated to Christ, and done for His sake. -- Alexander MacLaren
The only religion that can satisfy today's ideal is a religion that will give consecration to life, and direction to human endeavor, inspire men with faith in themselves, dedicate them to high moral purpose, and give them the strength to live through their failures, and to face with high courage their supreme tragedies. -- Sterling M. McMurrin
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Every Mass is a memorial of that one sacrifice and that passover which restored life to the world. Every Mass puts us into intimate communion with her, the mother, whose sacrifice 'becomes present' just as the sacrifice of her Son 'becomes present' at the words of consecration..... At the root of the Eucharist is the virginal and maternal life of Mary -- Pope John Paul II
All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence...Silence is the general consecration of the Universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the Divine Pontiff's hands upon the world. Silence is at once the most harmless and the most awful thing in all Nature. It speaks of the Reserved Forces of Fate. Silence is the only Voice of our God. -- Herman Melville
When you come back to God for pardon and salvation, come with all you have to lay all at his feet. Come with your body, to offer it as a living sacrifice upon His altar. Come with your soul and all its powers, and yield them in willing consecration to your God and Saviour. Come, bring them all along-everything, body, soul, intellect, imagination, acquirements-all, without reserve. -- Charles Grandison Finney
The true lasting quietness... comes from a complete consecration to the Divine -- Mirra Alfassa
True consecration to Christ simplifies life, for it leaves the management to Him. -- J. Sidlow Baxter
It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing. -- Martin Buber
Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail. -- Ezra Taft Benson
There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration. -- George Eliot
Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." -- John Richard Green
Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. -- James E. Faust
What are we doing to keep the light shining in our own eyes and countenances; Much of that light comes from our discipline dedication and consecration. -- James E. Faust
While salvation is a free gift, the 'winning Christ' can only be through unreserved consecration and unquestioning obedience. Nor is this a hardship, but the highest privilege. -- Hudson Taylor
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
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
You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart. -- Adrian Rogers

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