Quotes About Love

God does not exercise His sovereignty capriciously but only in such a way as His infinite love deems best for us.

God is not only sovereign, He is perfect in love and infinite in wisdom.

In fact, there is no such thing as grudging obedience. For an action to be truly obedient to God, it must be done from a motivation of genuine love and gratitude to Him.

I'm accepted by God, not on the basis of my personal performance, but on the basis of the infinitely perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ.

Only conduct arising from love is worthy of the name obedience.

To the degree that we live with an abiding sense of His love for us in Christ, to that degree will we love God with all our heart and soul and mind.

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.

Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness.

Our good works are not truly good unless they're motivated by a love for God and a desire to glorify Him. But we cannot have such a Godward motivation if we think we must earn God's favor by our obedience or if we fear we may forfeit His favor by disobedience. Such a works-oriented motivation is essentially self-serving, prompted more by what we think we gain or lose than by a grateful response to the grace He has already given us through Jesus Christ.

The converse truth is that love gives validity to my actions and makes them acceptable to God. I

to see God solely as love is to overlook the beauty and the purpose of the cross.

Most of us are tempted, from time to time, to question God's love for

I have done so for two reasons: First, that we might see the depth of God's love, not only in giving His one and only Son, but in giving Him to die for such people as Paul has described us to be.

If God loved me enough to give His Son to die for me when I was His enemy, surely He loves me enough to care for me now that I am His child.

If God's love was sufficient for my greatest need, my eternal salvation, surely it is sufficient for my lesser needs, the adversities I encounter in this life.

Henry observed when commenting on Zephaniah 3:17, "The great God not only loves his saints, but he loves to love them." God takes great delight in loving us because we are His very own.

in order to trust God in adversity we must believe that God is completely sovereign, perfect in love, and infinite in wisdom.

God's love always transcends human love, even human family love, in its ability to reach out to those in need.

We must see our circumstances through God's love instead of, as we are prone to do, seeing God's love through our circumstances.

As Lamentations 3:33 states, "For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men.

The assurance here is that God will show compassion. It is not enough to say that He is compassionate, but He will show compassion.

God's unfailing love for us is an objective fact affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. It is true whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God's love, nor does our faith create it.

For us to trust God in times of adversity, we must believe in God's sovereignty, His love, and His wisdom. Of these three truths, the sovereignty of God seems to be questioned the most frequently and most stridently. It seems we will allow God to be anywhere except upon His throne ruling His universe according to His good pleasure and His sovereign will.

Our motive for obedience is just as important, probably more so, to God than the level of our performance. A person who struggles with some persistent sin but does so out of love for God is more pleasing to Him than the person who has no such struggle but is proud of his or her self-control. Of course, the person who obeys from a motive of love will be concerned about his or her performance. There will be a sincere desire and an earnest effort to please God in every area of life.