I have a Savior; though I sought
Through earth and air and sea,
I could not find a word, a thought,
To show Him worthily.
But planted here in rock and moss
I see the Sign of utmost loss;
I hear a word—On Calvary’s Cross
Love gave Himself for thee.
—Amy Carmichael
So let us praise Him now, though it may be from under the harrow, from the depths, from anywhere. We shall never have the chance again to love Him in the peace of a great contentment, with the word ringing in our ear, And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in Me.
—Amy Carmichael
O deeps unfathomed as the sea,
O heights that reach beyond the high,
O Love that lavished all on me,
I know Thee now, I know Thee nigh.
O Love that is not here or there,
But like Thine own eternity
Is here, is there, is everywhere,
I yield, I love, I worship Thee.
—Amy Carmichael
There is no love without hatred, just as there is no white without black! If you want love, you must hate.
— Volodymyr Vynnychenko
“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”
— Warren Buffett
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
— George Orwell
Our strange people – both strong and sad… Had heroes – and no one knew them… Always loved freedom – and always lived as a slave… Created the riches of songs – and does not know them…
— Volodymyr Vynnychenko
“Do you want to know love?
Go to Calvary and see the Man of Sorrows die.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Just as all the water will flow out of a barrel if there’s so much as one little hole in it, so all the joy of love will drain out of your soul if in your soul there is enmity toward so much as a single person.
—Leo Tolstoy
“Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried”-that is history. “He loved me and gave Himself for me”-that is doctrine.
—J. Gresham Machen
In short, Christ and all His benefits, the love of the Father, and the grace of the Son, become our portion only in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
—Herman Bavinck
A God of infinite goodness and benevolence loves those that have no excellency to move or attract it
—Jonathan Edwards
There’s no reason to pity a person if he dies or loses his money, if he has no home or property, because none of those things belong to man. But there’s reason for pity if a person loses his one true possession, his highest blessing: his ability to love.
—Leo Tolstoy
“If ye love Christ, show it, and show it by doing good to others, by laying yourself out to help others that Jesus may have joy of them.”
– Charles Spurgeon
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up.
Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The master-motive of a good shepherd is love. We are to feed Christ’s lambs out of love.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Love, and then feed. If thou lovest, feed. If thou dost not love, then wait till the Lord hath quickened thee, and lay not thy unhallowed hand to this sacred service.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Love is the grandest preparation for the ministry, whether exercised in the congregation or in the class.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Our object is to create love in the hearts of those we teach, and to foster it where it already exists; but how can we convey the fire if it is not kindled in our own hearts?”‘
– Charles Spurgeon
“Where there is no love there will be no life; living lambs are not to be fed by dead men.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Some people hold the truth, but in such a cold stern way that it will do no good. Other people want to love everything, and so they give up much of the truth; but we are to hold the truth in love; we are to hold the truth even if we lose all, but we are to hold it in love.
—D. L. Moody
On our Earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.
We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love.
I want suffering in order to love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
“A shepherd that does not love his sheep is a hireling and not a shepherd: he will flee in the time of danger, and leave his flock to the wolf.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“We must love or we cannot bless. Teaching is poor work when love is gone; it is like a smith working without fire, or a builder without mortar.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Breathe, Wind of God. Forgiving Love, renew us;
Form us and discipline to Thy desire.
O Man of War, great Son of Man, endue us;
O mighty Spirit, kindle with Thy fire!
—Amy Carmichael
We should admire the love of Christ to men, that he has thus given himself to be the remedy for all their evil, and fountain of all good.
—Jonathan Edwards
My religion is to love all living things. Ibrahim ibn Ya’qub al-Tartushi
—Leo Tolstoy
O tell it out that He is near, all you who love Him, tell it out to the sad world that thinks Him far away, though He be not far from every one of us.
—Amy Carmichael
I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky