Quotes About Love

That's all it takes, one drop of fear, to curdle love into hate.

There was something unnatural, a little unhealthy, about the way she inhaled Veda's smell as she dedicated the rest of her life to this child who had been spared.

We are to save ourselves for the Bridegroom, as a bride saves herself for her husband.

to know God is to perceive his worship-inspiring holiness and love, severity and kindness, righteousness and mercy.

Jesus exhaustively receives the wrath of God.

The love of Jesus upholds justice and extends mercy.

God saves Christians not because they have been righteous but because he is merciful

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

To disrespect a person made in the image and likeness of God is a lot worse than desecrating a flag. We should be offended and repulsed in the same way when God's image bearers are desecrated – abused, beaten, neglected, discriminated against, and not loved and taken care of as they should be.

Repentance is shockingly beautiful when we see it not as "I sinned again, I need to repent," but as "I sinned against my God again, but He is calling me back so He can lavish me with His love and forgiveness.

Churches closing at a rate of six thousand per year in North America are not doing so because of worship style or form of government or methodology. They are failing because regardless of your preference on those points, it's pointless to deny the true cause behind debates and divisions—a failure to love.

Given the impossibility of not failing one another, when the Bible says, "We all stumble in many ways,"7 the only way forward in loving community with one another is forgiveness.

Be loving in conflict or be loving in frustration or let love command your every interaction because "love never fails.

In our homes, where we work, in our friendships, we come inevitably to a fork in the road where we must decide, "Will I forgive that?" If the answer is yes, we go forward together in love. If we choose "no, I will not forgive," at that point we will tend to amplify the fault we observe to excuse our withdrawal into bitterness. Everyone loses—and the gospel most of all.

God's love is not a pampering love. God's love is a perfecting love. God does not get up every day trying to figure how He can plant a bigger smile on your face. God is in the process of growing us and changing us. His love is a transforming love.

Love is selfless! Love is "you before me" decision making. Need it shorter? Love = Ub4me! There it is.

Love is what we need in friendship when we stumble, and truth is what we need when we stray.

For those who love God all things work together for good.

Most counseling cases today involve good desires that have become overgrown. In these cases most relevant passages of Scripture may not be those that rebut particular manifestations of sin, but those that remind us to love God with all our hearts.

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love" (1 Corinthians 16:13–14).

Proverbs 18:22 says, "He who finds a wife finds a good thing.

Plain and simple, men need community with other men. Loving, you-before-me, dedicated relationship. If you have never had it, you don't really get it yet, and if you had that community and lost it, you know the cavity it leaves in your soul until you discover it again.

We know we are called to act like quality men with urgency that is governed by clarity in the strength of the Lord. What remains is this matter of love.

Men need to know that you don't need to become a woman to love others as God designed for the benefit of all.