John Wesley on the Love of God
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us.
15 quotations from John Wesley on the Love of God, each traced to the exact paragraph it comes from. Follow any of them into the full text — free, and without an account.
A Plain Account of Christian Perfection 2
Love has purified his heart from envy, malice, wrath, and every unkind temper.
The foundation is faith, purifying the heart; the end love, preserving a good conscience.
Sermons on Several Occasions 13
As God is love, so man, dwelling in love, dwelt in God, and God in him.
God hath given this honour to love alone: Love is the end of all the commandments of God.
May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion?
We think of what we love; but we do not love God; therefore, we think not of him.
It is love excluding sin; love filling the heart, taking up the whole capacity of the soul.
What we love we delight in: But no man has naturally any delight in God.
We have by nature, not only no love, but no fear of God.
We might have loved God the Creator, God the Preserver, God the Governor; but there would have been no place for love to God the Redeemer.
Next to the love of God, there is nothing which Satan so cordially abhors as the love of our neighbour.
Religion is the love of God and our neighbour; that is, every man under heaven.
Nothing is higher than this, but Christian love; the love of our neighbour, flowing from the love of God.
If we love Him, we cannot but love one another, as Christ loved us.
No suffering, but that of Christ, has any power to expiate sin; and no fire, but that of love, can purify the soul, either in time or in eternity.