Top 100 Christianity Love Quotes
#1. Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people.
David Dark
#2. Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.
W. Somerset Maugham
#3. When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love, and that love is the Holy Spirit.
Meister Eckhart
#4. Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit.
Gary L. Thomas
#5. Your mind was made to know and love God.
John Piper
#6. When you grow up in America things like Christianity waters down your feeling ... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love you're enemies, what value does that put on love?
Marilyn Manson
#7. It takes a stronger person to restrain from retaliation, then opposing to someone who's filled with vengeance
Takina Cupp
#8. Christianity is not an ethical code. It is a love affair, a Spirit-filled way of living aimed at making us professional lovers of God and people.
Brennan Manning
#9. The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
C.S. Lewis
#12. Christians need a new filling of the Holy Spirit to love those who disagree with them. And the greatest expression of love is to share with them the most precious thing a Christian has, which is the good news of the salvation of Jesus Christ.
Brother Andrew
#13. Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way
Ricky Maye
#14. Arguments escalate when we want to be right more than we want to be CHRIST. It's easy to get blinded in the heat of disagreement. Soon, all we want is to win. Even if victory requires sin. The one who wins the argument is usually the one who acts LESS like Christ.
Francis Chan
#15. If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
John Ortberg
#16. Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;
to love Him in others' virtues.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17. You know, we can quote the written Word all day to our friends, but nothing will touch them like our own hunger and love for the Word himself. It is not dutiful love that attracts but love freely lavished from a heart familiar with the gardens of heaven.
Amy Layne Litzelman
#18. He says no in order that He may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes. All His ways with us are merciful. His meaning is always love.
Elisabeth Elliot
#19. Our concern for victims is the secular mask of Christian love.
Rene Girard
#20. What a beautiful name. I love to watch how it falls off the lips of those who love Him. I shudder as it falls off the lips of those who don't. Jesus.
Beth Moore
#23. Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command ... but ... attempts ... to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man with only a sense of the master-slave relationship.
Pope John Paul II
#24. We expect God to be an angry father who demands justice, but through Jesus, He gives us love and grace when we don't deserve it.
Kyle Idleman
#26. If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.
Francis Schaeffer
#27. There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
G.K. Chesterton
#28. The Holy Spirit is like the wind. It can be gentle enough to stroke a leaf but hard enough to bend a tree. God provides us rest, but He'll also bring us an inch away from our breaking point. Both are done in love.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#29. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
A. J. Jacobs
#31. How could she understand it then - - that one of her greatest blessings would come only through her greatest wound?
Cathy LaGrow
#32. Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.
R.C. Sproul
#33. I didn't know that love is not about what we do, but who we are, convincing others of our love for them...and about who loves us.
Jack Frost
#35. How ought we to love God, Father?" he asked in a whisper.
"By loving men, my son"
"And how ought we to love men?"
"By trying to guide them along the right path"
"And what is the right path?"
"The one that rises"
- Nikos Kazanzakis, Christ Recrucified
Nikos Kazantzakis
#36. A life of hospitality begins in worship, with a recognition of God's grace and generosity. Hospitality is not first a duty and responsibility; it is first a response of love and gratitude for God's love and welcome to us.
Christine Pohl
#37. It's not your schedule that keeps you from praying, it's your failure to realize the importance of prayer.
Jim George
#38. Christianity is a love relationship between a child of God and his Maker through the Son Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Adrian Rogers
#39. You are Christians; find out what is true and false in Christianity - and you will then find out what is true. Find out what is true and false in your environment with all its oppressions and cruelties, and then you will find out what is true. Why do you want philosophies?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#40. How easy it is for us to demonise from a distance. But when we stand face to face with our supposed enemy, it is hard to hate.
Brandan Roberston
#41. God had sent her someone who was exactly right to inspire her to make full use of the talents she'd been blessed with.
Elizabeth Camden
#42. But one aspect of Revelation must not be allowed to exclude or to obscure another; and Christianity is dogmatical, devotional, practical all at once; it is esoteric and exoteric; it is indulgent and strict; it is light and dark; it is love, and it is fear.
John Henry Newman
#43. It is only by loving others that we can learn to live; living is rare nowadays ... most people survive; that is all.
Sandra Chami Kassis
#44. It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.
C.S. Lewis
#45. Hold your possessions so loosely that when they are lost in the sacrifices of love, your confidence in a supreme Treasure in heaven will fill you with joy.
John Piper
#47. When we love God with our hearts in disproportion to our minds, our faith is out of kilter with the kind of faith God wants us to have.
Patty Houser
#49. It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; but the knowledge of the free love of God in the gift of His only-begotten Son.
Horatius Bonar
#50. Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.
Philip Yancey
#51. I want to commune with Christ and live in His fullness or I don't want anything to do with Christianity. I want all God has to offer.
Alan De Jager
#52. In the minds of most people, Christianity is supposed to be about love of God and neighbor (even though it is true that at the heart of Christianity does not lie human love at all, but God's love for humanity24
Miroslav Volf
#53. Don't be overly proud of your accomplishments and success. Recovery is never complete. You 're engaged in a life-long process. Continue each day to love and serve God with humility
Binye Vincent
#54. We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God .
Cesare Pavese
#55. Christianity always flourishes most as a life-giving minority, not as a powerful majority. It is through subversive, countercultural acts of love, justice, and service for the common good that Christianity has always gained the most ground.
Scott Sauls
#57. There is tremendous relief in knowing His love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me , so that no discovery can disillusion him about me , in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench his determination to bless me.
J.I. Packer
#58. Would it be worth it to pick up my cross and be crucified next to Jesus? If He is not God, then, no. Lose everything I love to worship a false God? A million times over, no!
But if He is God, then yes. Being forever bonded to my Lord by suffering alongside Him? A million times over, yes!
Nabeel Qureshi
#59. We do not work for unity; we work to end and erase disunity. Unity is of God; disunity is of man. In matters of doctrine and practice of conscience, our guide should be this traditional saying: In essentials, unity. In nonessentials, liberty. But in all things, love.
Mike Timmis
#62. Well, It's just painful to see them without nothing to eat and at the same time no God. So let's share our food and our God.
Jestoni Revealed
#63. Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.
Steve Maraboli
#64. We must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.
Lysa TerKeurst
#65. Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
Anatole France
#66. Friendship is not by force but by choice.
You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.
Stella Oladiran
#67. No one whose steps are truly ordered by God will ever attempt to walk over another human being.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#68. If love was Jesus's greatest commandment, why dont more christians do so? This is the greatest sin, if Jesus in fact gave us one and only commandment and we dont follow! GIVE YOUR LIFE FOR SOMEONE ELSE, LIKE I DID FOR YOU!!! THAT IS CHRISTIANITY, SERVE THE POOR ...
Haggai Jeffers
#69. I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.
Michelangelo
#70. Cosmopolitan theology that longs for the Kindom of God seeks to recover its revolutionary universalizing ethos in terms of hospitality, neighbor-love, and multiple solidarities that one can see in Jesus' teaching and ministry, without any imperialist, kyriarchcal, hierarchical implications
Namsoon Kang
#71. Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him
this is all!
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
#73. How simple our Lord's word is, Love thy neighbor. Just think how that word has been twisted around, just because it's hard to love thy neighbor.
Edgar Maass
#74. I believe in God and that everything I do is because of Him. If I don't have a relationship with God, I can't love my wife and kids the way I'm supposed to love them.
Donald Driver
#75. The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.
John Piper
#76. The Bible is the greatest love story ever told.
Jordan Wells
#77. We can face whatever circumstances await us with courage if we just reflect on God's faithfulness and place our confidence in His great power and loving purpose for our lives.
David Jeremiah
#78. Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service.
Diana Butler Bass
#79. Christianity does not think of man finally submitting to the power of God, it thinks of Him as finally surrendering to the love of God. It is not that man's will is crushed, but that man's heart is broken.
William Barclay
#80. Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe - with charity - that there is still room for Hope.
Umberto Eco
#81. If the Cross is God's masterpiece of His love, then the Eucharist is the centerpiece of our worship.
Gangai Victor
#82. To love as God loves means loving not just others like us, but those who are not.
Peter Enns
#83. Now the question we must ask is ... what kind of _practices_ [theology] motivates, what kind of _gaze_ onto others, the guest, the new arrivant, it offers us to carry with us; _not_ who my neighbors are _but_ to whom I am being a neighbor.
Namsoon Kang
#84. Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
Bill Hybels
#86. A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that's a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections.
Paul Washer
#88. Don't bring Hollywood; bring Christ. Don't bring power. Don't bring just your money. Bring love. Bring the kingdom.
Brother Andrew
#89. Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
Jacques Maritain
#90. Christmas united us as holy beings. We experience love, joy and peace.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#91. Purge me from every sinful blot;
My idols all be cast aside:
Cleanse me from every evil thought,
From all the filth of self and pride.
The hatred of the carnal mind
Out of my flesh at once remove:
Give me a tender heart, resigned,
And pure, and full of faith and love.
John Wesley
#92. Chivalry in love has nothing to do with the sweetness of the appearance. It has everything to do with the tenderness of a heart determined to serve. You must not act under the impetus of charm, but out of a commitment to make someone's life the joy you want it to be.
Ravi Zacharias
#93. The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself, "Greater love hath no man
" and Justin thought it sounded as though he were quoting someone else.
Rosemary Sutcliff
#95. You can't take the human out of the person.
Tommy Tran
#96. You can take course after course of so-called theology and never hear the message at the heart of Christianity - the message of Jesus, which is indiscriminate love.
Eileen Egan
#99. We are enjoined to love our neighbor, not our tribe.
Chris Hedges
#100. I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.
Frederick Douglass
