Quotes related to Ephesians 5:2
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
— William Faulkner
God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.
— Kevin DeYoung
God didn't just give a little for us; He gave His best. He gave Himself.
— Francis Chan
God asks the best we have Because He gave the Best He had.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.
— RC Sproul
Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
— Vance Havner
Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?
— John Piper
You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.
— Corrie Ten Boom
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love is put in the giving.
— Mother Teresa
Ah, don't let us undo what you've done!' she cried. 'I can't go back now to that other way of thinking. I can't love you unless I give you up.
— Edith Wharton
He says "I love you" first, even when we respond with an indifferent shrug or the equivalent of a passing, "Oh, thanks." And in this we discover why it might be hard for us to move toward others: the one taking the initiative in the relationship—the one who loves most—is the one who risks humiliation.
— Edward Welch
All we can give back and all God wants from any of us is to humbly and proudly return the product that we have been given—which is ourselves!
— Fr. Richard Rohr