Quotes about Love
As to embrace me she inclined, I waked she fled and day brought back my night.
— John Milton
Freely we serve, because we freely love, as in our will to love or not; in this we stand or fall
— John Milton
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i see.
— John Newton
If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.
— John Newton
How unspeakably wonderful to know that all our concerns are held in hands that bled for us.
— John Newton
From the time we know the Lord, and are bound to him by the cords of love and gratitude — the two chief points we should have in our view, I apprehend, are, to maintain communion with him in our own souls, and to glorify him in the sight of men.
— John Newton
Let us chide our cold unfeeling hearts and pray for a coal of fire from the heavenly altar to send us home in a flame of love to him who has thus loved us.
— John Newton
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— John Ortberg
The story of the Bible isn't primarily about the desire of people to be with God; it's the desire of God to be with people.
— John Ortberg
To accept people is to be for them. It is to recognize that it is a very good thing that these people are alive, and to long for the best for them. It does not, of course, mean to approve of everything they do. It means to continue to want what is best for their souls no matter what they do.
— John Ortberg
There is a very important theological distinction between being a prophet and being a jerk. What burns deeply in the heart of a true prophet is not just anger but love.
— John Ortberg
Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible.
— John Ortberg