“Let him be assured that the Father loved him so much as to give his only begotten Son to die that he might live through him, and he must love God and hate evil.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Why do such eat and drink and yet refuse to love him who gives them their meat and drink?
—Jonathan Edwards
He both satisfied for sin and procured the promise. He procures all the love and kindness which are the fruits of the covenant, being himself the original promise thereof
—John Owen
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
—William Shakespeare
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
—Ernest Hemingway
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!
—Charles Dickens
Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man.
—Miyamoto Musashi
I will not live without love.
—Vincent Van Gogh
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
If, in the righteousness, the goodness, the love, the mercy, the all-sufficiency of God, there be any thing that will do us good, the Lord Jesus is fully interested with the dispensing of it in our behalf.
—John Owen
How comely is it for the humble Christian, with his heart full of holy joy and cheerfulness, to enter into his closet and on his knees offer up his heart, a sacrifice, burning in the flame of love.
—Jonathan Edwards
You thrash about, suffer and search for happiness everywhere, but it’s within you. It’s not in people’s love for you, as it appears at first, but in your love for them.
—Leo Tolstoy
If, in the righteousness, the goodness, the love, the mercy, the all-sufficiency of God, there be any thing that will do us good, the Lord Jesus is fully interested with the dispensing of it in our behalf.
—John Owen
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
—Ernest Hemingway
They do not love that do not show their love.
—William Shakespeare
It is better to love and do than to write and speak.
—Taras Shevchenko
Surely, dear Sir, the love of CHRIST must constrain us to spend and be spent for the good of souls.
—George Whitefield
I like physics, but I love cartoons.
—Stephen Hawking
“Because God is the living God, he can hear.
Because he is a loving God, he will hear.”
— Charles Spurgeon
You have nothing to fear from the machinations of those people who belong to a deceitful and vain world. They can’t reach a beautiful bird soaring in the sky. What’s her name? Is it truth? Love? Eternity? Yes, eternity. The bustling world can’t keep up with eternity, it better see it doesn’t lose itself!
—Hryhorii Skovoroda
Love is a life-giving fire in the human soul, and everything created by man under the influence of this feeling is marked by the seal of life and poetry.
—Taras Shevchenko
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
—Stephen Hawking
What greater gift than the love of a cat.
—Charles Dickens
The whole of life, including business and all of social relations, must be obedient to the law of love.
—J. Gresham Machen
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
—Voltaire
As a boy, I was not a Christian. I did not have the privilege of growing up in a home where Christ was known and loved. God spoke to me through a street preacher who quoted the words of Jesus, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.”
—AW Tozer
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
—Michelangelo
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
—George Orwell
A love of nature keeps no factories busy.
—Aldous Huxley
Do not talk about the love of God until you have realized the enormity of sin and of what you have done against God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones