love

“I say therefore, this morning, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to all of you who love him, Look well to the weak ones of the church.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“We praise the electing, unchangeable, eternal, conquering love of the Lord.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Cast yourselves on his undeserved mercy; he is full of love, and will not spurn you: surrender yourselves into his hands, and solemnly resolve, through his grace, to dedicate henceforth all your faculties and powers to his service.

—William Wilberforce

Even toil will be a joy.

You may deny yourself bread for your children, and even that will be a joy.

They will love you for it afterward.

So, you are laying by for your future.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

“O to love God with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our mind, and with all our strength: that is what the law required, it is what the gospel enables us to render.”

– Charles Spurgeon

‘God is love’. This is the sacred principle which warms and enlightens the heavenly world, that blessed seat of God’s visible presence.

—William Wilberforce

How becoming a thing is it that we should love and bless God, seeing he does so much for us and requires nothing also as a return but the sacrifices of thanksgiving.

—Jonathan Edwards

My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

How often, as we ponder some new tender mercy, so undeserved, so dewy with the freshness of love that we long for words of glory to sing that love, we can only say, Lord, Thou knowest me. I am all open unto Thee—and yet Thou hast done this.

—Amy Carmichael

Those who are hardest to love, need it the most.

—Socrates

The strongest proof of God’s love is that He gave Christ to die for our sins. That cross testifies of the love of God for this world.

—D. L. Moody

“Let us seek more faith, more love, more patience, more zeal: let us labour after greater charity, greater brotherly kindness, greater humbleness of spirit.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. He is a gracious master. Oh that I knew and loved him more! for he is altogether lovely.

—George Whitefield

“Understanding the love of Jesus lifts the mind above all fear.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Farewell, thou deadly love of sin; we have done with thee! Farewell, dead world, corrupt world; we have done with thee! Christ has raised us. Christ has given us eternal life.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“The Lord Jesus loves his people so much, that every day he is still washing thier soiled feet.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

—Franz Kafka

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

—Henry David Thoreau

“The more we know God, the more we shall love him.”

— Charles Spurgeon

You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.

—Franz Kafka

How happy is it, when all are of one mind in a house; all agreed to entertain and love the Lord Jesus. Their heaven is begun on earth.

—George Whitefield

Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.

—William Shakespeare

“We lay in our death quite unable to raise ourselves therefrom; ours were eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear; a heart that could not love; and a withered hand that could not be stretched out to give the touch of faith.”

– Charles Spurgeon

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

—George Orwell

Working on freeing your soul from your body in order to make it more spiritual and filled with love each and every day is the only genuine labor.

—Leo Tolstoy

“He cannot wilfully offend against such love; on the contrary, he feels himself bound to obey God in return for such unsearchable grace; and thus by a sense of love doth God write his law upon the hearts of his people.”

– Charles Spurgeon

The eternal love of the Father is not the fruit but the fountain of his purchase

—John Owen

Whoever loves becomes humble.

Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

—Sigmund Freud

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.

—Stephen Hawking

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.

—Stephen Hawking