Quotes related to 1 John 4:16
Little is much, If love abides.
— Janette Oke
There was such love as she had dreamed, and she meant to go on believing in it and cherishing the thought that she was worthy of it.
— Edith Wharton
You believe lies about God. Guaranteed. You think he can't see all things; you think he doesn't care; you think that he reluctantly forgives; you think that he is far away; you think that he loves many people but not you. Don't assume that you know him. Read the Gospels.
— Edward Welch
God oft-times doesn't give a lot of answers but just keeps telling us who we are. God just keeps inviting us into that place where love is alive and where God is in love.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
great love is always a discovery, a revelation, a wonderful surprise, a falling into "something" much bigger and deeper that is literally beyond us and larger than us.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Love is always stronger than death, and unto that love you have now returned.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Life is not about me; it is about God, and God is about love. When we don't know love, when we don't experience love, when we experience only the insecurity and fragility of the small self, we become restless.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
love, not death, is the eternal thing.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Until you meet a benevolent God and a benevolent universe, until you realize that the foundation of all is love, you will not be at home in this world.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
It is interesting to me that very clear passages describing both God's conditional love and also God's unconditional love are found in the same Scriptures...The only real biblical promise is that unconditional love will have the last word!
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Religion, at its best, helps people to bring this foundational divine love into ever-increasing consciousness. In other words, it's more about waking up than about cleaning up.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The God we've been presenting people with is just too small and too stingy for a big-hearted person to trust or to love back.
— Fr. Richard Rohr