In dogmatics, God loves us; in ethics, we love him.
—Herman Bavinck
The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.
—Cicero
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love..
—Marcus Aurelius
Since the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Father He feels toward His people exactly as the Father feels. He will always act like Jesus, toward sinners in compassion, toward saints in warm affection, toward human suffering in tenderest pity and love.
—AW Tozer
When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
—Albert Einstein
Blessed be thy name for ever, that thou art God, and that thou wilt glorify thyself. O that the whole world might glorify thee! O let these poor people be brought to know thee, and love thee, for the glory of thy dear ever-blessed name!
—David Brainerd
But, oh, to love and praise God more, to please him for ever! this my soul panted after, and even now pants for while I write.
—David Brainerd
“The great ocean of Jesus’ loving self-sacrifice can swallow up the mountains of our sins.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Why should you be enemies to your own peace? To read over the evidences of God’s love to your souls as a man does a book that he intends to refute? Why do you study to find evasions, to turn off these comforts that are due to you?
—John Flavel
Unite with a church that has a real active interest in the salvation of the lost, where young Christians are looked after and helped, where minister and people have a love for the poor and outcast, a church that regards its mission in the world to seek and save the lost.”
—R. A. Torrey
As the fear of God, so the love of God is a principle of restraint from sin to the soul that is upright. This kept back Joseph from sin: How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
—John Flavel
The Holy Spirit can take a man whose mind is blind to the truth of God, whose will is at enmity with God, whose affections are corrupt and vile, and transform that man, impart to him a new nature, so that he thinks God’s thoughts, love what God loves, and hate what God hates.
—R. A. Torrey
People tell us the Bible is full of things that are impossible to believe. I know of nothing else so impossible to believe as that a holy God should love such individuals as you and me, as the Bible says He does. But as impossible as it is to believe, it is true.
—R. A. Torrey
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
—Oscar Wilde
The church is made up men and women, imperfect men and women, and consequently it is an imperfect institution, but none the less it is of divine origin and God loves it, and every believer should realize that he belongs to it and should openly take his place in it.
—R. A. Torrey
The poor have a friend in Jesus. If no one else loves them, Jesus loves them. He came to give them liberty, to proclaim to them the gospel of God’s grace.
—D. L. Moody
We must not allow the devil to take advantage of us, and make us believe that God does not love us because He does not grant all our petitions in the time and way we would have Him do.
—D. L. Moody
If you receive Jesus Christ, you will love him more than you will love yourself. He will be dearer to you than yourself.
—D. L. Moody
When you are a child of God, you will love the things that God loves. What you once hated you will love, and what you once loved, you will hate.
—D. L. Moody
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
Augustine
I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ—and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.
John Newton
Our strength will fail us. The strength of our friends will fail us. If we trust in our money it will take wings and fly away. If we trust in the love of our friends, they will leave us. A mother may forget her child, but God will never forget us.
—D. L. Moody
If you wish to possess love for God’s Word, study it diligently and so become like an artesian well – overflowing with the water of life to refresh thirsty souls.
—D. L. Moody
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
She was dull, unattractive, couldn’t tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces… But I loved her
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Truth is the most sovereign ingredient for curing the nation and church.
Christopher Love
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
Augustine
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
Augustine
On earth Christians enjoy Christ by drops; in Heaven they shall enjoy the fullness of the ocean.
Christopher Love