Quotes About Love

He turned His back upon His Son so that He would never have to turn His back on you.

You can have money and still love God, but as Jesus said, you cannot love money and love God.

The Bible says when others treat you badly, you're supposed to love them, pray for them, bless them, and do good things for them. If you can't do it because you want to, then you must do it because you're obedient.

SPIRITUAL LIBERTY 2 TIMOTHY 1:7 God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. We have been released from the spirit of fear by the Holy Spirit, who has placed us in the body of Christ. We have received the Spirit of adoption. This adoption provides for every believer release from the bondage that he once knew.

William Temple, who served as Archbishop of Canterbury during the difficult days of World War II. He wrote, "To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God."3

In this fallen world, Christians are not called to a life where all choices lead to comfort or safety. We are called to a life of commitment to the One who loves us enough to die for us. The Bible often tells us this commitment will mean trouble and pain. We must draw encouragement from the words of Jesus when He said, "Do

You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my Spirit. JOB 10:12 NIV

That's why God is the answer to all our fears. If God is good and loving (and He is), and if God is all-powerful (and He is), and if God has a purpose and a plan that include His children (and He does), and if we are His children (as I hope you are), then there is no reason to fear anything, for God is in control of everything.

God, I love You for making me suffer like this. It is Your will. You know the best for me. And I just praise You for loving me enough to allow me to experience this. In all things, including this, I give thanks.

the hand of God is on me, the love of God is in me, and the heaven of God is before me ….

To fear only God's power with trembling and dread without fearing (or respecting) His astonishing love is an incomplete response that diminishes our experience and enjoyment of Him.

There is a God to love and there is a God to fear, and He is one and the same! Did He not judge His own Son as a demonstration of His love for the world? And did He not then show His love for the Son He judged by raising Him from the dead? How silly to think that if He is a loving God, He cannot also be a fearsome God. The two attributes complement each other.

Love without distinction. Love without calculation. Love without procrastination. Just love.

Return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm" (Joel 2:13).

didn't have a lick of musical talent, it won't matter. You and I and all who love Christ will be qualified to join the eternal chorus, and together our voices will sound across the universe, in one unified statement: "We love Jesus; He is worthy to be praised!"5

These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. —JOHN 15:11

When insult comes our way, we look for a way to respond in love (Matthew 5:38-39).

Love is not about what we feel for others— it's about what we do for others.

Our children are too precious and their time with us too short for us to neglect the unspeakable privilege we have in loving them, nurturing them, shaping them, and preparing them to step out into the wide world.

When insult comes our way, we look for a way to respond in love (Matthew

Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.

Self-sacrifice ends in pain and death. It is rational selfishness that leads to health, happiness, love, and trust.

People often think there is no way to heal from severe loss. I believe that is not true. You heal when you can remember those who have died with more love than pain, when you find a way to create meaning in your own life in a way that will honor theirs. It requires a decision and a desire to do this, but finding meaning is not extraordinary, it's ordinary. It happens all the time, all over the world.

I don't want to have to tell them that my life lost all its meaning when they died. They loved me, and they wouldn't want that.