love

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