His Love Quotations

I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

My joy in life is not because I have not had any problems. I have joy because I have learned there is nothing too great for Gods power to deal with, nor anything too small or insignificant for His love to be concerned about.

Oh my goodness, I'm in love with Channing Tatum, although I think I'm too old to play his love interest. They'd probably cast me as his grandmomma's friend or something like that, but anything to be in a movie with Channing.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.

God's idea of guarding his heart is to guard himself against diminishing love. He guards his love. Now if that doesn't become revolutionary I am not saying it right.

The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.

God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.

He loves but lightly who his love can tell.

Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to Alice. It was those moments, and there had been many of them, that indicated to him that he was not a good person. He got mad at her for many things, but it was always really for the same thing: that she possessed his love and he couldn't seem to get it back. She didn't deserve it, which was to say she deserved better

My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.

He hath never failed thee yet. Never will His love forget. O fret not thyself nor let Thy heart be troubled, Neither let it be afraid.

What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?

God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.

With Jesus we have 100 percent security, and no one can ever breach the parameters of His love.

Beloved, God has never failed to act but in goodness and love. When all means fail-his love prevails. Hold fast to your faith. Stand fast in his Word. There is no other hope in this world.

The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.

A man who isn't generous with his money isn't generous with his love and affection.

There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.

We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn’t draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)? Doesn’t His courting, luring, pushing, calling and even ‘threatening’ demonstrate His love? If He didn’t do all of that, wouldn’t we accuse Him of being unloving in the end, when all things are revealed?

Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.

If I stopped loving Him, I would cease to believe in His love. If I loved God, then I would believe in His love for me. It's not enough to need it. We have to love first, and I don't know how. But I need it, how I need it.

His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo!

When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course, he saw that her self-effacing proposal was quite irrelevant. All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. Love and patience- if only he had had them both at once- would surely have seen them both through.

All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

Trials always change our relationship with God. Either they drive us to Him, or they drive us away from Him. The extent of our fear of Him and our awareness of His love for us determine in which direction we will move.

God’s love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail.

God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.

A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.

The purposes of our God are great, His love unfathomable, His wisdom infinite, and His power unlimited; therefore, the Saints have cause to rejoice and be glad.

Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.

Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.

But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.

When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.

Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love.

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

If you ponder the scriptures and begin to do what you covenanted with God to do, I can promise you that you will feel more love for God and more of His love for you.

His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked.

Please do not lose hope in the Savior and His love for you. It is constant. He promised that He would not leave us comfortless.

It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.

All the marvels of nature are glimpses of His divine power and expressions of His love.

An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.

The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense and of cheapness.

God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us; he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this reason he inspires us with his love

I can see why she feels left behind. Maybe even discarded. Is that why she refuses to accept my love and return it? Afraid that love doesn't last? Doesn't really exist? Afraid if her own father can withdraw his love (or at least the manifestation of his love), that maybe she somehow isn't worthy of the emotion?

His love is what makes us live, love, sing, and praise forever.

I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.

Today, begin to believe right by choosing to know and believe in the powerful truths of God’s Word and in His love for you.

To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your dutiful activities, is the way that leads to permanent peace and happiness.

God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.

God no longer simply stands before us as the One who is totally Other. He is within us, and we are in him. His dynamic enters into us and then seeks to spread outward to others until it fills the world, so that his love can truly become the dominant measure of the world.

God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.

God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world.

...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation.

When a man is able to be alone he is also able to love. And his love has a totally different quality, a different beauty, a different fragrance to it. It is something divine, it is something of the beyond. It is deeply fulfilling. It brings great contentment.

Value God and his love more than all the world, though there were millions of them. He valued you before the world, and therefore is beforehand with you in his love. He not only loved you from everlasting, (whereas your love is but of yesterday,) but in the valuation of it, he loved you before all worlds, and preferred you to all worlds: though you loved the world first, before you loved him.

The only ground of God's love is his love.

The willingness of God to sacrifice his Son to reconcile us to himself is a demonstration of his love for us.

My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.

Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.

To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious... To discard a portion of scripture is not necessarily to reject the truth, but may be the highest evidence that one can give of his love of truth.

Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.

Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.

Let me revel in this one thought: before God made the heavens and the earth, He set His love upon me.

If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.

If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.

The seasons change and you change, but the Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever.

To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.

Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.

The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.

Blind is his love and best befits the dark- Benvolio (in Romeo and Juliet)

God made us for one reason: so He could have fellowship with us. It wasn't that He was lonely or needed us but He made us in His image so He could shower His love upon us.

God does not change - and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born... He loves you now... and He will love you forever.

God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He's still on the throne.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.

Take a firm grasp on God’s sovereignty and trust His love even when you don’t understand His purpose.

God’s love is free. He asks for nothing in return; all he wants is for his love to be accepted.

The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us!

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

I am a slave of Ramakrishna, who left his work to be done by me and will not give me rest till I have finished it. And oh, how shall I speak of him? Oh, his love for me!

A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.

Every love outside of HIS love, is pain.

Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.

Jesus was lost in his love for God.

Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.