Quotes about Love

Imagine a church filled with people who simply live to do the will of God and always treat others the way He intended.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

The line in this song that slayed me the first time I heard it, and slays me every time I hear it, is 'I cannot explain the way that You came to love me, except to say that nothing is beyond You.

Spiritual life is not a life of laws and precepts but a life of participation, affection and love, a life mingled and mixing with God.

God loves us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

He had let go of the need to earn God's love

Abba is best translated "Dear Father." It is a term of intimacy, but it also contains a sense of obedience.

Public virtue is the vital spirit of republics, and history proves that when this has decayed and the love of money has usurped its place, although the forms of free government may remain for a season, the substance has departed forever.

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

Jesus was the only point. Imitation was the point.

Asked to describe the Holy One, Jesus told the story of the father whose bond with his son, no matter the son's unworthiness, was unbreakable.

Separated Peter from the vile and suicidal Judas was that he, Peter, had lived long enough to find his offense transformed—through no merit of his own—by the loving acceptance of Jesus. The humiliated Peter was, in the same moment, the forgiven Peter.