Thomas à Kempis on the Love of God
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us.
9 quotations from Thomas à Kempis 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.
The Imitation of Christ 9
Place all your trust in God; let Him be your fear and your love.
Affection for creatures is deceitful and inconstant, but the love of Jesus is true and enduring.
Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.
Jesus Christ must be loved alone with a special love for He alone, of all friends, is good and faithful.
Love tends upward; it will not be held down by anything low.
One who is in love flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free, not bound.
Let me love You more than myself, and let me not love myself except for Your sake.
Love is never self-seeking, for in whatever a person seeks himself there he falls from love.
The wise lover regards not so much the gift of Him Who loves as the love of Him Who gives.