Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.
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.
Consecration is only possible when we give up our will about EVERYTHING.
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, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.
The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.
Some find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation; speculation seems more fun than consecration, and so is trying to soften the hard doctrines instead of submitting to them. Worse still, by not obeying, these. . . lack real knowing. Lacking real knowing, they cannot defend their faith and may become critics instead of defenders!
But we must not forget, this ritual expressed, certain ideas which lie at the very root of true religion, the fellowship of the worshippers with one another in their fellowship with the deity, and the consecration of the bonds of kinship as the type of all right ethical relations between man and man.
There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.
The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.
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.
True consecration to Christ simplifies life, for it leaves the management to Him.
With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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.
Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory!
Consecration is not the act of our feelings but of our WILL.
It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing.
The true lasting quietness. . . comes from a complete consecration to the Divine
