Quotes about Love
I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least. DOROTHY DAY You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. ANNE LAMOTT
— John Ortberg
God wants to be known, but not in a way that overwhelms us, that takes away the possibility of love freely chosen. "God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away," said Meister Eckhart.
— John Ortberg
Jesus has made God's presence scandalously available to anyone who wants it.
— John Ortberg
The question is, can a human being hold on to God in the face of suffering? After all, suffering is the test of love.
— John Ortberg
Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor who doubts sometimes, has written that the reason so many babies keep being born is that God loves stories. Why
— John Ortberg
a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification
— John Owen
So much as we see of the love of God, so much shall we delight in him, and no more.
— John Owen
By nature, since the entrance of sin, no man has any communion with God. He is light, we darkness; and what communion has light with darkness? He is life, we are dead—he is love, and we are enmity; and what agreement can there be between us?
— John Owen
The goal of the Christian life is not external conformity or mindless action, but a passionate love for God informed by the mind and embraced by the will.
— John Owen
keep the heart full of a sense of the love of God in Christ. This is the greatest preservative against the power of temptation in the world. Joseph
— John Owen
The intendment of all gospel revelation is, not to unveil God's essential glory, that we should see him as he is, but merely to declare so much of him as he knows sufficient to be a bottom of our faith, love, obedience, and coming to him
— John Owen
It is not, we see, of ourselves, that we either know the truth, or love it, or abide in the profession of it. We have nothing of this kind but what we have received. Humility in ourselves, usefulness towards others, and thankfulness unto God, ought to be the effects of this consideration.
— John Owen