Quotes about Love

Every day is an important day, and every second is a growth opportunity to deepen your character, to demonstrate love, or to depend on God.

Most important, you must learn to love lost people the way God does.

Knowing and loving God is our greatest privilege, and being known and loved is God's greatest pleasure.

God has never made a person he didn't love. Everybody matters to him.

What are you doing personally to make your church family more warm and loving? There are many people in your community who are looking for love and a place to belong. The truth is, everyone needs and wants to be loved, and when people find a church where members genuinely love and care for each other, you would have to lock the doors to keep them away.

You cannot make God stop loving you, because his love is based on who he is, not what you do. It is based on his character, not your conduct.

While life on earth offers many choices, eternity offers only two: heaven or hell. Your relationship to God on earth will determine your relationship to him in eternity. If you learn to love and trust God's Son, Jesus, you will be invited to spend the rest of eternity with him. On the other hand, if you reject his love, forgiveness, and salvation, you will spend eternity apart from God forever.

Can I trust God? Trust is an essential ingredient to surrender. You won't surrender to God unless you trust him, but you can't trust him until you know him better. Fear keeps us from surrendering, but love casts out all fear. The more you realize how much God loves you, the easier surrender becomes.

All sin, at its root, is failing to give God glory. It is loving anything else more than God.

We bring God glory by loving other believers.

If you want to know how valuable your life is to God, just look at the cross. With his arms outstretched, nailed to the cross, Jesus was saying, "This is how valuable you are to me. I love you this much! I'd rather die than live without you." You are priceless.

The sooner we give up the illusion that a church must be perfect in order to love it, the sooner we quit pretending and start admitting we're all imperfect and need grace. This is the beginning of real community.