Quotes about Lovers
Sin makes us better fighters than lovers.
— Paul David Tripp
For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’
— Hosea 2:5
Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.
— Jeremiah 22:20
For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
— Hosea 8:9
therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked.
— Ezekiel 16:37
The lovers of God's Word praise the preciousness of the Bible and the pleasures it brings. They
— John Piper
Men give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.
— Ezekiel 16:33
Reading the prophets, says Yancey, is like hearing a lovers' quarrel through the apartment wall.
— John Eldredge
The wind will drive away all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.
— Jeremiah 22:22
Faith is not a product of our will. It occurs without intention, without will. Words expire when uttered, and faith is like the silence that draws lovers near, like a breath that shares in the wind.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.
— Evelyn Underhill
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
— CS Lewis