Love Of God Quotes

• The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Surrender
  • God's Will
  • Human Personality

• There is no age barrier when it comes to Christlike service. … As we look beyond our differences in age, culture, and circumstance to nurture and serve one another, we will be filled with the pure love of Christ and the inspiration which leads us to know when and whom to serve.

  

  Bonnie L. Oscarson
  • Culture
  • Inspiration
  • Christ

• The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself: so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror like, each soul reflects the other.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Soul
  • Light
  • Joy Of Heaven

• One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his every word. And inspired by her eagerness to learn more about her God whom she loved so dearly, he said to the people: It is better to be this unlearned woman, loving God with all her heart, than the most learned theologian lacking love.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Heart
  • Listening
  • Learn

• Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.... The love of God did not protect His own Son.... He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Suffering
  • Son
  • Imagine

• I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Love Of God
  • Comprehend
  • Niagara

• She had wondered once if the human love she had longed for, and now knew, was symbolic and she realized with the approach of Christmas that the love of God contains the human power of love in its supernatural state. It was that that burst forth two thousand years ago and disrupted the world like a tidal wave.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Christmas
  • Wondered
  • Power Of Love

• Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in the sea is a sensation, not a feeling. Lying down when you're tired is sensational, not a feeling, although you may say it feels good. Feeling is an emotional interpretation of experience and these sensations don't need interpretation; they are just good or right. Making physical love rightly is a sensation, not a feeling. So is the love of God. The same goes for joy and beauty; both are sensational.'

  

  Barry Long
  • Beauty
  • Love Is
  • Interpretation

• In biblical Greek the word "repent" comes from a military term similar to the command "about face." In...sermons, repentance is all about "turning away' from sin, and certainly repentance would include an element of that. However, the deeper flavor of his word is less about turning away from something and more about turning toward something. As much as the word "repent" makes many of us recoil, what if it is enjoining us to turn away from our fear of God and to turn toward the love of God? what if we simply confess that God is love, and then put a period at the end of the sentence? God is love. Period.

  

  Benjamin L. Corey
  • Sin
  • Greek
  • God Is Love

• Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it's what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Understanding
  • Love Of God
  • Theologians

• The love of God has been described as the highest, noblest, strongest kind of love and the most joyous to the soul.

  

  Bonnie L. Oscarson
  • Soul
  • Love Of God
  • Described

• Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Good
  • Love
  • For Him

• Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, to root it out, by God's grace, and every fibre of it. Purpose strongly, by the grace and strength of God, wholly to sacrifice this sin or sinful inclination to the love of God, to spare it not, until thou leave of it none remaining, neither root nor branch.

  

  Edward Bouverie Pusey
  • Purpose
  • Sin
  • God's Grace

• Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Religion
  • Sacrifice
  • Love Of God

• I wouldn't consider myself a so-called 'celebrity.' Arrrgh, for the love of God!

  

  Emma Stone
  • Celebrity
  • Love Of God

• Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Grace
  • Rebellion
  • Love Of God

• I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Serve
  • Love Of God
  • My Hope

• The Ragamuffin rabble are the unsung assembly of saved sinners who are little in their own sight, conscious of their brokenness and powerlessness before God, and who cast themselves on His mercy. Startled by the extravagant love of God, they do not require success, fame, wealth, or power to validate their worth. Their spirit transcends all distinctions between the powerful and powerless, educated and illiterate, billionaires and bag ladies, high-tech geeks and low-tech nerds, males and females, the circus and the sanctuary.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Educated
  • Sinners

• The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Death
  • Understanding
  • Memories

• Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Desires
  • Love Of God
  • Rooted

• A great many things determine how people live, and money is not at the top of the list. Choices are always available. What you choose will depend on how you see things: yourself, your work, your right to express taste and desire and personality, your understanding of the love of God as expressed in His creation and order and harmony.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Money
  • Desire
  • Choices

• I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Love Of God

• It's a poor sort of virtue that has no roots in love. It's why you do or don't do a thing that matters most to my mind. If love of God comes first with you then you deny yourself to keep His commandments, you give away your whole life to Him and glory in what the world calls loss.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Virtue
  • Glory
  • Roots

• When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Interests
  • Govern

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