quotes about God Love
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Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
God loves all those who love him: I love them that love Me.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.
-- Angie Stone -
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When God loves you, what can be better than that?
-- Aretha Franklin -
Nothing can separate me from the love of God.
-- Ayrton Senna -
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
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Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!
-- Bethany Hamilton -
As you love God and serve Him, you will undoubtedly experience the greatest adventure life has to offer.
-- Bill Bright -
The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.
-- Billy Graham -
Sin is the second most powerful force in the universe, for it sent Jesus to the cross. Only one force is greater-the love of God.
-- Billy Graham -
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God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
-- Brennan ManningSource : Brennan Manning, John Blase (2011). “All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir”, p.192, David C Cook
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The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
-- Brennan ManningSource : Brennan Manning (2010). “The Wisdom of Tenderness: What happens when God's firece mercy transforms our lives”, p.88, Zondervan
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I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
-- Brennan ManningSource : Brennan Manning, Michael W. Smith (2000). “The ragamuffin Gospel”, Multnomah
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Love God. Live Called. It's not just devotional, it's vocational!
-- Brian Houston -
It is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelet in the pan for the love of God.
-- Brother Lawrence -
It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.
-- Brother Lawrence -
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You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.
-- C. S. Lewis -
We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.
-- C. S. Lewis -
If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will show itself in the exterior.
-- Catherine McAuleySource : Catherine McAuley (2017). “A Shining Lamp: The Oral Instructions of Catherine McAuley”, p.179, CUA Press
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Our relationship with God flows out of our love for God.
-- Christine Caine -
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Love God, serve God; everything is in that.
-- Clare of Assisi -
For the love of God, will someone please punch me in the face so I can see some stars?
-- Cloris Leachman -
We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.
-- Criss Jami -
The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.
-- Dada Vaswani -
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Those who love God never meet for the last time.
-- David Berg -
We have made people in the industry and the people that see us aware that God loves them
-- Della Reese -
To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.
-- Don CupittSource : Don Cupitt (2010). “Theology's Strange Return”, p.37, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
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To say that God is love is in effect to say simply that love is God.
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If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.
-- Donald MillerSource : FaceBook post by Donald Miller from Jan 19, 2014
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In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.
-- Donna Rice Hughes -
I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
-- Dorothy Day -
Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.
-- Dorothy Day -
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The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.
-- E. Stanley Jones -
You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
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A refusal to believe that God loves us is the unbelief which destroys the soul.
-- Edward Norris KirkSource : Edward Norris Kirk (1857). “Discourses: Doctrinal and Practical”, p.21
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If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.
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Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.
-- Francine RiversSource : Francine Rivers (2016). “The Francine Rivers Contemporary Collection: Leota's Garden / And the Shofar Blew”, p.669, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
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The best things in life are gifts from the One who steadfastly loves us. But an important question to ask ourselves is this: are we in love with God or just His stuff?
-- Francis Chan -
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
-- Fulton J. Sheen -
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
-- George Henry BorrowSource : George Henry Borrow (1848). “Gypsies of Spain”, p.27
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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
-- Gordon LightfootSource : Song: The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
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For God loves to be entreated, He loves to be compelled.
-- Gregory of Nazianzus -
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... we can see both that love for God is begotten from the virtues and that virtues are born of love. For this reason the Lord said at one point in the Gospels, 'He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me' (Jn. 14:21), and at another point, 'He who loves Me will keep My commandments' (cf. Jn. 14:23).
-- Gregory Palamas -
God loves us, and the will of love is always blessing for its loved ones.
-- Hannah Whitall Smith -
Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.
-- Hans Urs von Balthasar -
When you're in love with God, you're not afraid to yield your life to Him.
-- Heidi Baker -
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The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that come forth from that love.
-- Henri Nouwen -
What is important is how well we love. God will make our love fruitful, whether we see that fruitfulness or not.
-- Henri Nouwen -
Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is not 'How am I to find God?' but 'How am I to let myself be found by him?' The question is not 'How am I to love God?' but 'How am I to let myself be loved by God?'
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A test of your love for God is to examine your love for others.
-- Henry Blackaby -
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If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him.
-- Henry Blackaby -
For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.
-- Honore de Balzac -
A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear if only we realized - really realized - that we go to pray not because we love prayer, but because we love God.
-- Hubert Van Zeller -
If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it’s now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it?
-- Irshad Manji -
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The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.
-- J. I. Packer -
Love God with all your mind...
-- J.P. MorelandSource : J. P. Moreland, James Porter Moreland, Mark Matlock (2005). “Smart Faith: Loving Your God with All Your Mind”, Think
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Salvation is universal because the love of God encompasses all. If God is God and if God is love, nothing is outside the love of God. A place like hell is thus inconceivable.
-- Jacques Ellul -
He whom God loveth, He beateth the hell out of.
-- Jamie Buckingham -
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So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?
-- Jan Karon -
I love God, and when you get to know Him, you find He's a Livin' Doll.
-- Jane Russell -
The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.
-- Janet Jackson -
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Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.
-- Jerry BridgesSource : Jerry Bridges (1991). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love”, Navpress Publishing Group
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There is a peace deep within myself from knowing that all things are held within and sustained by the love of God.
-- Jim PalmerSource : Jim Palmer (2007). “Wide Open Spaces: Beyond Paint-by-Number Christianity”, p.178, Thomas Nelson Inc
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I define personal success as being consistent to my own personal mission statement: to love God and love others.
-- Joel Manby -
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
-- John BunyanSource : John Bunyan (1873). “The Complete Works”, p.79
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Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
-- John Calvin -
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
-- John Henry Newman -
At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
-- John Stott -
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God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.
-- John StottSource : John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, p.172, InterVarsity Press
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All the things that are now worrying you can be put into a smile which shows your love of God.
-- Josemaria Escriva -
He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.
-- Joseph Goebbels -
God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.
-- Joseph Hall -
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It will never be about our love for God. It will always be about His magnificent love for us.
-- Joseph PrinceSource : FaceBook post by Joseph Prince from Nov 27, 2014
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Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.
-- Joss Whedon -
Get up every day, love God, and do your best. He will do the rest!
-- Joyce Meyer -
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Everything has being through the love of God.
-- Julian of Norwich -
That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
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I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.
-- Julie Orringer -
God loves you just as much as He loves Jesus!
-- Kenneth Copeland -
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I love God, I love everybody else around me as myself, and I love my enemy.
-- Kevin Gates -
Love God, Embrace beauty, Live life to the fullest.
-- Kyle Lake -
God loves the noise as much as the signal.
-- Lewis M. BranscombSource : Lewis M. Branscomb (1997). “Confessions of a Technophile”, p.45, Springer Science & Business Media
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No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
-- Margaret of Valois -
I'm telling you, God loves a lot of people.
-- Mariano Rivera -
When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?
-- Marie CorelliSource : Marie Corelli (2015). “The Master Christian”, p.187, The Floating Press
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The ultimate form of love for God and men is forgiveness.
-- Marion D. Hanks -
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This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.
-- Mark Buchanan -
God loves you enough to receive you as you are. He loves you too much to keep you as you are.
-- Mark Driscoll -
I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
There is no 'love of God' for you unless you have repented or unless you do repent. Make no mistake about this. Do not rely or bank on God's love. It is only for the penitent; there is no entry into the kingdom of God except by repentance.
-- Martyn -