Top 97 Quotes About God's Perfect Love
#1. Love casts out fear, for when we know we are loved, we are not afraid. Whoever has God's perfect love, fear is gone out of the universe for him.
A.W. Tozer
#2. The Bible views us as recipients of God's perfect love, already charged with an important life mission (seeking first the kingdom of God), and thus the decision to marry, though crucial, won't define us. Nor will who we marry define us.
Gary L. Thomas
#3. We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.
Richard Rohr
#4. Your people are not unwise, after all: love of the perfect Deity may prevent us from loving imperfect man! But God's will is to restore the lost; and that can't be done without loving them.
K.J. Bishop
#5. Mortals have become spoiled and ungracious, and fail to appreciate the things right around them. They forget that Christmas is about love, and God's perfect, selfless gift.
Cameo Renae
#6. God be thanked for that good and perfect gift, the gift unspeakable: His life, His love, His very self in Jesus Christ.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#7. It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.
Stormie O'martian
#8. Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.
Alphonsus Liguori
#9. The passage from the realm of morals into the realm of religion is but a step; for the energy that we have found so persistent in the soul of man, urging him to purity, and service, and perfect love, is the same energy which, outside and above the soul of man, we name God.
Frank C. Lockwood
#10. The Christian who loves his Master needs not fear any longer for himself. For it is then completely irrational, as it is written thus: 'Perfect love casts out fear.' However, it is very much rational for one to fear instead for the enemies of God.
Criss Jami
#11. She has had a couple of lovers before, but honest to God, no one has ever felt as good, as perfect a fit, as him.
Sarah Rayner
#12. True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbor, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
Teresa Of Avila
#13. The beauty of grace is that God chooses to use imperfect people to demonstrate His perfect glory, love and Truth to this world.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#14. To love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small ones.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#15. He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love giveth sure access to God. But he who still delighteth in sin, no marvel if he is afraid of death and judgment.
Thomas A Kempis
#16. To be like God is not to have perfect doctrinal integrity, to get the details of church "right," or to be religiously and moralistically pure. To be like God is to dirty our hands with the labor of love.
Ronnie McBrayer
#17. In a world gone astray from God there is no peace, but it also lacks charity, which is true and perfect love ... Nothing is more beautiful than love. Indeed, faith and hope will end when we die, whereas love, that is, charity, will last for eternity.
Pier Giorgio Frassati
#18. Despite my incessant desperation, I simply cannot paint the perfect picture within which I would wish to live out my life. And because I cannot, God picked up the brush of love, positioned the canvas of history and painted a manger.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#19. Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.
Giuseppe Mazzini
#20. I'm so in love with you. You were perfect last night." "I love you back, babe." Day tilted his head back and thrust into him. God slid down and grabbed both of Day's ass cheeks and massaged them while moaning in his ear. "Hell!
A.E. Via
#21. I think God is perfect, all-powerful and has an unstoppable plan for everyone, including those who love him and those who don't.
Kirk Cameron
#22. God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.
Elizabeth George
#23. I'm a very spiritual person, and I believe in God and all that kind of stuff. So my perfect type of guy would be spiritually grounded, extremely respectful and funny because I love to laugh.
Grace Gealey
#24. If God created each of us and created us in His own image, then we are each created in the image and likeness of pure and perfect Holy Love itself. We cannot be less than that, but we can remove ourselves from the awareness of it.
Karlyle Tomms
#25. There's no higher dream than experiencing God as He moves through every circumstance of life to an eternal encounter with Himself where transformed people will enjoy perfectly loving community around Jesus Christ, the source of Perfect Love.
Larry Crabb
#26. We must care about unbelievers because God does. Love leaves no choice. The Bible says, "There is no fear in love; perfect love drives out all fear."18 A parent will run into a burning building to save a child because their love for that child is greater than their fear.
Rick Warren
#27. Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others.
Henry B. Eyring
#28. I get that. For you, it's more than following a bunch of rules - no sex, no booze, no swear words, pray every night and twice on Sunday.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#29. Loving someone deeply brings you closer to God. It is a humble admission of weakness, through which God's strength is made perfect.
Lillian Katungwa
#30. The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger
so it be done for love, and not forostentation
do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. We must look to God for His grace and His power to perfect godly qualities in our lives.
Elizabeth George
#32. A man could only love her imperfectly, but God could give her the perfect love she desired. Lady Rose had learned to comfort her husband in his pain instead of expecting him to heal her own.
Melanie Dickerson
#33. God hears no sweeter music than the cracked chimes of the courageous human spirit ringing in imperfect acknowledgement of His perfect love.
Joshua L. Liebman
#34. I am at last reconciled to my God and have assurance of His pardon through faith in Christ, against which the very gates of hell cannot prevail. Fear hath been driven out by perfect love.
John Randolph Of Roanoke
#35. If I made you from nothing, then maybe I am God, and because I want More, maybe I'm the Devil.
Craig Clevenger
#36. Sister,
Words cannot express the love I have for you, or the hope I have for your future, but they would only fail in comparison to those God has already written for you ... He is faithful. Let Him restore you in His perfect timing and in His perfect way.
Nicole Deese
#37. The truth is that each of us fall short of loving unconditionally. We don't love others the way God loves us. Yet Jesus extended perfect love by living and dying for all of our sins. In spite of our failures, weaknesses, and selfishness, He sacrificed His own life so we could have eternal life.
Dana Arcuri
#38. God did not create us out of need. He created us out of his love.C. S. Lewis wrote,God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them.
John Ortberg
#39. It is faith (trust) that affirms that the light, the ultimate truth, is perfect love. (That's because there is only one God, and He is both.) Therefore faith is the key to this absolute love of truth.
Peter Kreeft
#40. My 'Moment of TRU' - I live, I love, I let be. I grind, I do my own thing, I stay in my own lane. Ain' got no worries because God is my source. I'm not perfect, but by grace I get better with every day God gives me.
LaNina King
#41. All love is of God, the Apostle John reminds us, and because love cannot be buried in a coffin, the beautiful but broken relationships of Earth are resumed in the Father's home above where, as members of the same family, we dwell together in perfect harmony.
Herbert Lockyer
#42. Book love ... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
Anthony Trollope
#43. A loving, just and merciful God who created everything that exists would therefore love all creation equally. Such a God would have no "chosen people" for we would all be God's chosen people, each of us created in the image and likeness of pure and perfect Holy Love itself.
Karlyle Tomms
#44. True spirituality respects the vessel of creation we call "human" and intuits that because this vessel was created by God, it could only ever be perfect - even if it does need some fine-tuning from time to time.
Tehya Sky
#46. God is perfect (we are not). He sees the big picture (we do not). He knows everything (we do not). So I choose to believe in this - that I am who I am on purpose, that the One who made me has a purpose and has unconditional love for me and those in my life.
Annie F. Downs
#47. The church is to be set apart (sanctified) not by possessing a special religious piety but by participating in and manifesting the perfect eternal love of God. As Bonhoeffer said, Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.
Gregory A. Boyd
#48. I love the voice - it's the most perfect instrument ever heard. It's God given.
A.R. Rahman
#49. To become attached to the experience of peace is to threaten the true and essential and vital union of our soul with God above sense and experience in the darkness of a pure and perfect love.
Thomas Merton
#50. God's perfect, unconditional love and faithfulness are what brought me through all of the healing, restoration and breakthroughs I desperately needed so I could become what He created me to be!
Joyce Meyer
#51. The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.
Francis Chan
#52. We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher.
Molly Friedenfeld
#53. God, do I love this man. The way he touches me, the way he kisses me. The cuts of his body and the intensity of his eyes. He is a drug that I have no way of resisting, bad for my soul, but so heartbreakingly perfect in its deliverance.
Alessandra Torre
#54. My grandma loved to be on stage entertaining people. She loves to make people smile and laugh. She loves to brighten other people's day. She often calls perfect strangers her angel, as a way of witnessing, but also to encourage and build their self-esteem.
Lisa Bedrick
#55. To be holy is to live in a way that reflects the moral perfection of God; it is to live a life marked by love, purity, and righteousness, which are the three most important hallmarks of perfect behavior.
T. Desmond Alexander
#56. The wildest part is that Jesus doesn't have to love us. His being is utterly complete and perfect, apart from humanity. He doesn't need me or you. Yet He wants us, chooses us, even considers us His inheritance (Eph. 1:18). The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
Francis Chan
#57. Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way, Corrie, God can give us the perfect way.
Corrie Ten Boom
#58. Your accord and harmonious love is a hymn to Jesus Christ ... in perfect harmony, and taking your pitch from God, you may sing in unison and in one voice to the Father through Jesus Christ.
Ignatius Of Antioch
#59. Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
Callie Thorne
#60. One year before the Rapture " ... that proves how marvellous God's love is, even for the most miserable human beings, being that demons can never take a human figure in a perfect form, and so the most stupid people are able to discover them." Nicholas Remy, Daemonolatreiae libri tres, 1595.
Phillip W. Simpson
#61. Down the footpath the two went through the perfect morning, the love of God and all nature in their hearts.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#62. God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.
Joyce Meyer
#63. He who lives according to God ought to cherish towards evil men a perfect hatred, so that he shall neither hate the man because of his vice nor love the vice because of the man.
Augustine Of Hippo
#64. I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#65. Truth Is ... We All Search For LOVE In Our Lives That Will Last. Often It Doesn't And Send Us In Despair. Real Unfailing LOVE Comes From The Heavens Above. No Matter What Your religion Is ... We Are All Taught That God's LOVE Is Perfect, Undying And Last Forever!
Timothy Pina
#66. Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#68. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
Colossians 3 14
#69. We learn to love imperfect people by serving them out of reverence for a perfect God...
Gary Thomas
#70. Searching for a perfect love is not easy to find,but having the love of our God is more perfect than what you have found.
David Archuleta
#71. The Word says God don't give us credit for lovin the folks we want to love anyway. No, He gives us credit for loving the unlovable. The perfect love of God don't come with no conditions ...
Ron Hall
#72. To praise God is to express our acceptance of something that God is permitting to happen. So to praise God for difficult situations, as sickness or disaster, means literally that we accept its happening, as part of God's plan to reveal His perfect love for us. We
Merlin R. Carothers
#73. Spirit-led Jesus followers recognize that they are imperfect Christians working with other imperfect Christians to serve a perfect Christ. When we love and give to one another, then we grow as individuals and as the family of God.136
Mark Driscoll
#74. As we fear God more completely, we love Him more perfectly. And 'perfect love casteth out all fear'.
David A. Bednar
#75. There is nothing you can to do make God love you more! There is nothing you can do to make God love you less! His love is Unconditional, Impartial, Everlasting, Infinite, Perfect!
Richard Halverson
#76. Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, Then there is not perfect love. But: Only perfect love exists. If there is fear, It produces a state that does not exist. Believe this and you will be free. Only God can establish this solution, and this faith is His gift.
Foundation For Inner Peace
#77. From the depths of the well I had discovered a light above, and yearned to go up and see what all it shone upon. At last
ah, with what years of toil!
I stood in the perfect day, and beheld the principle of life, the element of religion, the link between the soul and God
Love!
Lew Wallace
#78. We're all at different places on the path. But we can work together to help each other 'press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men.'
Carole M. Stephens
#79. I love to look at you. I always think of what Gordon Prescott said. He said that you are God's perfect exercise in structural mathematics.
Ayn Rand
#80. Fear is actually faith in the wrong god. Fear is the manifestation of believing that something is about to go wrong. And yet, "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love" (1 John 4:18).
Kris Vallotton
#82. You're so critical. Oh, God, I'd do anything for you to stop blaming me for every little thing that goes wrong. Love me for who I am. Love Shelley for who she is. Stop focusing on the bad stuff because life is just too damn short.
Simone Elkeles
#83. It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory.
Teresa Of Avila
#84. Let us realize, my daughters, that true perfection consists in the love of God and of our neighbour, and the more nearly perfect is our observance of these two commandments, the nearer to perfection we shall be. Our
Teresa Of Avila
#85. The enlightened world will be one in which everyone is in love with everyone all the time. We will see each other as God created us: as the perfect, loving, and lovable people we really are. The purpose of romantic love is to jump-start our enlightenment.
Marianne Williamson
#86. God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.
Bernie Siegel
#87. God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in love, which is a sincere gift of self.
Pope Benedict XVI
#88. Even the most ignorant person on earth can experience union with God in perfect love by practicing contemplation in the beauty of humility.
Anonymous
#89. So get on with life, with love, with service - fully realizing that God already has the perfect service he requires of us in his Son and now our neighbor needs our imperfect help.
Michael S. Horton
#90. Trust God's love. His perfect love. Don't fear He will discover your past. He already has. Don't fear disappointing Him in the future. He can show you the chapter in which you will. With perfect knowledge of the past and perfect vision of the future, He loves you perfectly in spite of both.
Max Lucado
#91. Our lives,our brokenness,our flaws and failures are precisely what God designed to reflect a perfect love.
Peter Adejimi
#92. Sorrow is permitted human beings, but it is not to be desired if we would be like You, Lord God. For You, who love souls far more purely than we and feel a perfect pity for others, are wounded, yet without sorrow. How can we be like You in this?
Augustine Of Hippo
#93. God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best and love us most and will not leave one thing undone for our eternal welfare. Should we not love them for it and honor them first?
Ezra Taft Benson
#94. To join two things together there must be nothing between them or there cannot be a perfect fusion. Now realize that this is how God wants our soul to be, without any selfish love of ourselves or of others in between, just as God loves us without anything in between.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#95. It makes it easier to wait for the man God has for me," Said Elly, "Because I already have the most important relationship. I can spend my life loving and being loved by the perfect Bridegroom. I don't have to wait for a man to fall in love with me to make me happy.
Jennae Noelle
#96. Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world.
Marguerite De Navarre
#97. When everything all in a moment comes together, surprisingly perfect, it doesn't prove there's a loving God; but if there is, isn't it perfect when all in a moment, God proves how surprisingly He loves?
Geoffrey Wood
