love

“Now I know that my Lord Jesus loves me, and that he will never do anything else but love me.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Only when the way is rough,

And the coward flesh would start,

Let thy promise and thy love,

Cheer and animate my heart.

—John Newton

Love truth, but pardon error.

—Voltaire

Rejoice in Christ and resist every temptation to doubt his love as you would resist a temptation to adultery or murder.

—John Newton

Reproof should be in season, in secret, and in love.

—John Newton

All that he parted withal, all that he did, all that he suffered, all that he doth as mediator; he parted withal, did, suffered, doth, on the account *of his love to and esteem of believers*.

—John Owen

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

—Blaise Pascal

The reason of this dealing of Christ with his church, in parting with all others for them, is, because he loves her. She is precious and honourable in his sight; thence he puts this great esteem upon her.

—John Owen

The reason of this dealing of Christ with his church, in parting with all others for them, is, because he loves her. She is precious and honourable in his sight; thence he puts this great esteem upon her.

—John Owen

We call suffering evil, but nothing unites people through love more than suffering.

—Leo Tolstoy

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

—Sigmund Freud

The soul is never satisfied with thoughts of Christ’s love to it. “O that it were more, that it were more! that I were as a ‘seal on his heart!'” is its language.

—John Owen

CHRIST’s love will let nothing pluck us out of his hands. However, let us constantly watch and pray, that we enter not into temptation.

—George Whitefield

If Christ is pleased to send forth his Spirit to manifest his love, and speaks friendly to the soul, it will support it even in the the greatest outward torment that man can inflict.

—Jonathan Edwards

I love those that thunder out the word. The Christian world is in a deep sleep. Nothing but a loud voice can awaken them out of it.

—George Whitefield

A little of true peace, a little of the joys of the manifested love of Christ, and a little of the true and holy hope of eternal life, are enough to compensate for all that toil and weariness, and to erase the remembrance of it from the mind.

—Jonathan Edwards

I know many of my acquaintance, who love to hear me talk and preach, and who receive me gladly into their houses; but alas! I fear they are self-righteous, and were never yet truly convinced of sin.

—George Whitefield

Christ not only delivers from fears of hell and of wrath, but he gives hopes of heaven, and the enjoyment of God’s love.

—Jonathan Edwards

In Christ the very nature of God is discovered to be love and kindness; and that he will exercise the same to sinners, he hath promised, sworn and solemnly engaged himself by covenant.

—John Owen

Don’t marry a woman who doesn’t love her father.

—Peter R. Rose

Accept of the offered love of him who is the only-begotten Son of God, and his elect, in whom his soul delighteth.

—Jonathan Edwards

*Love unto sinners*. Without this, man is of all creatures most miserable; and there is not the least glimpse of it that can possibly be discovered but in Christ.

—John Owen

Those persons who have God for their Father have a Father who loves them much more than any earthly parent loves his child.

—Jonathan Edwards

GOD give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love, and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst.

—George Whitefield

To lie in the arms of Christ’s love, under a perpetual influence of supportment and refreshment, is certainly to hold communion with him.

—John Owen

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

—John Locke

To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

—John Locke

Oh, what manner of love, that we, who were like others by nature, should be thus distinguished by grace!

—John Newton