Quotes on the Love of God

How I have lived through it I cannot tell, but the blessedness of the love and the peace and power I can never describe.

Learn to know the beauty of love and power and sympathy of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

If the love of God is in your heart you will love your brother.

The spirit of separation is the spirit of self-sacrifice, of surrender to the love of God; the truly separate one will be the most loving and love-winning, given up to serve God and man.

Chastisement is bringing your heart into unity with God’s Will, God’s Son, God’s Love.

The knowledge of God's Father love is the first and simplest, but also the last and highest lesson in the school of prayer.

Thou light of my heart, Thou bread of my inmost soul, Thou Power who givest vigour to my mind, who quickenest my thoughts, I loved Thee not.

I will now call to mind my past foulness, and the carnal corruptions of my soul; not because I love them, but that I may love Thee, O my God.

Luxury affects to be called plenty and abundance; but Thou art the fulness and never-failing plenteousness of incorruptible pleasures.

I sought what I might love, in love with loving, and safety I hated, and a way without snares.

O Thou Good omnipotent, who so carest for every one of us, as if Thou caredst for him only; and so for all, as if they were but one!

Surely unhappy is he who knoweth all these, and knoweth not Thee: but happy whoso knoweth Thee, though he know not these.

Surely vain are all men who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things which are seen, find out Him who is good.

Not with doubting, but with assured consciousness, do I love Thee, Lord.

What then do I love, when I love my God? who is He above the head of my soul?

Too late loved I Thee, O Thou Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new!

Now we love even our neighbor by faith; for we who are ourselves mortal know not the hearts of mortal men.

We love God now by faith, then we shall love Him through sight.

We are not going to talk about law, and duty, and punishment, but about love, and goodness, and forgiveness, and mercy, and eternal life.

God's people are often chastened, and the Lord's hand lieth heavy upon them; yet there is paternal goodness in their chastenings, and infinite lovingkindness in their tribulations.

It is the distinguishing mark of God's people that they know the love of Christ.

If we have grown in grace, it is absolutely certain that we shall have advanced in our knowledge and reciprocation of the love of Christ.

The love of Christ casts not out the love of relatives, but it sanctifies our creature love, and makes it sweeter far.

Christ in the heart, means Christ believed in, Christ beloved, Christ trusted, Christ espoused, Christ communed with, Christ as our daily food, and ourselves as the temple and palace wherein Jesus Christ daily walks.

Salvation does not come from the preacher’s authority, but through the hearer’s personal conviction, personal faith, and personal love.

Beloved, the Lord’s workers have sauce with their bread: not merely doctrines, but the holy joy that accompanies them.

Love of ease, spiritual indolence, religious slothfulness, all operate against this type of petitioning.

The faith that pleases God is not evidenced in the obedience of fear, but in the obedience of love and willingness.

The only thing He requires of you is your love, and that cannot be forced from you.

The child does not experience the love whose fruit is security, identity, self-esteem, acceptance, and encouragement.

The Lord has indeed manifested his tender care of and his great love towards me in Jesus, in inclining my heart cheerfully to lay all I have hitherto called my own at his feet.

The desires of my heart were, to retain the beloved daughter, if it were the will of God; the means to return her were, to be satisfied with the will of the Lord.

When the Lord blesses His people with peace and plenty, it is His open Heart that moves His loving Hand.

The Brightness of His Father's glory, the Sun of Righteousness, He came to manifest, as well as to speak of, the Father's love.

We do not estimate our love-gifts by their intrinsic value, but rather by the love they express.

God is not hard to please, nor is true human love, for it is a dim reflection of His own.

Our true self-denial, self-emptying, and giving for Christ's cause practically show our real estimate of the value of the Cross of Christ, our real love for the Christ who was crucified for us.

The world can never be to her what it once was; the betrothed bride has learnt to love her LORD, and no other society than His can satisfy her.

Despite all the unworthy fears of our poor hearts, Divine love is destined to conquer.

How wondrous the grace that has made the bride of CHRIST to be all this to her Beloved!

The love that has made her what she is, and now takes delight in her, is not a fickle love, nor need she fear its change.

To the soul really rescued by grace, no bribe to forsake GOD’S love will be finally successful.

Our love to GOD is secured by GOD’S love to us.

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.

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.

The saint's affections begin with God; and self-love has a hand in these affections consequentially, and secondarily only.

The saints desire the sincere milk of the word, not so much to testify God's love to them, as that they may grow thereby in holiness.

In short, the love of this world is a heavy weight upon the soul, which chains her down, and prevents her flight towards heaven.

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.