Top 100 To Love God Quotes
#1. A pure woman is better than a hundred yogis. Women are more open to love God.
Neem Karoli Baba
#2. If you want to love God better, hate sin more.
Mark Hart
#3. The Jesus Creed teaches us that a disciple's responsibility is to love God by following Jesus. You only follow someone else when your own lights or sense of direction are not good enough.
Scot McKnight
#4. Conversion is essential, but it is a beginning, not an end. The believer in Jesus Christ is not simply rescued from the penalty of his sin; he is redeemed to love God and his neighbor so that others might come to know him.
Max Anders
#6. Trust is born in love, and our need is to love God, not apprehend
facts concerning him.
George MacDonald
#7. We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.
Criss Jami
#8. To love God means to surrender, to trust, to be ready to die into Him, because dying in God is the beginning of a new life; it is resurrection. Love has to become such an intense flame that it bums you out, that you are not left behind, that you are consumed in it. If you are not, the Guest comes.
Rajneesh
#9. I am happy that I can at least want to love God. Perhaps that is all I've got, but it is already all that is essential. And He will take care of the rest.
Thomas Merton
#10. To take good care of yourself and to take good care of living beings and of the environment is the best way to love God.
Nhat Hanh
#11. After learning to love God (worship), learning to love others is the second purpose of your life.
Rick Warren
#13. Through this process, I've learned to not only love myself, but to love God, to trust in Him that I can do this. That I will beat this because I am strong and I have His light in my soul.
Toni Aleo
#14. If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.
Bruce Cockburn
#15. This is because the greatest problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her (John 13:34).
Gloria Furman
#16. To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but Him, or if we love anything else, we must love it only for His sake.
Peter Claver
#17. But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment - to love God first - nor is it clear that I was obeying the second - to love my neighbour. Hating the oppressors of my neighbour isn't perhaps quite what Christ had in mind.
Sheldon Vanauken
#18. I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction.
Bob Riley
#19. (Matthew 22:37, 39) My purpose is to love God completely, love self correctly, and love others compassionately.
Kenneth D. Boa
#20. All that is in the world is vanity except to love God and serve him only.
Thomas A Kempis
#21. It is easy to love God when you do not even have a cent in your pocket and you are totally dependent on Him
Sunday Adelaja
#22. To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.
Thomas F. Wilson
#23. It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things.
Francis Of Assisi
#24. To love God is something greater than to know Him.
Thomas Aquinas
#25. And even now I experience that blessed feeling. To love one's neighbors, to love one's enemies. Always to love
to love God in all His Manifestations. To love one's friends is human love, but to love one's enemies is divine.
Leo Tolstoy
#26. Most counseling cases today involve good desires that have become overgrown. In these cases most relevant passages of Scripture may not be those that rebut particular manifestations of sin, but those that remind us to love God with all our hearts.
James MacDonald
#27. If you want to love God, love the less-fortunate one. If you want to see God, look through the eyes of a hungry child.
M.Padua
#28. I'm more comfortable with my beliefs and with who I am. I honestly don't think about it that much. I just try to live my life and I try to love people. I try to love God well and I try to love people well. Those are my main objectives.
Kelly Clark
#30. We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.
Barbara Mandrell
#31. What is holiness? The end product of what holiness is it's to love God in the same way He loves Himself; it's to esteem God as much as He esteems Himself, and to separate yourself unto that love, and to keep yourself in that love.
Paul Washer
#32. Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.
Timothy Keller
#33. No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
Henry Ward Beecher
#34. Tell men that God is love; that right is right, and wrong, wrong; let them cease to admire philanthropy, and begin to love men; cease to pant for heaven, and begin to love God; then the spirit of liberty begins.
Frederick William Robertson
#35. To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the Lord to be served, to serve him concretely. And you are, dear brothers and sisters, in the face of Jesus.
Pope Francis
#36. Only God is love, and for this love to be fully realized self must step aside. And not only do we not need a self to love God, but for the same reason we do not need a mind to know him, for that in us which knows God, is God.
Bernadette Roberts
#37. Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.
John Ortberg
#38. Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.
Max Anders
#39. Our parents taught us to love God, love our family and love our country. Their own grandparents were immigrants. Their first language may not have been English, but the hopes and dreams they had for their children were purely American.
Martin O'Malley
#40. To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor.
Ezra Taft Benson
#41. To be in the association of those aspiring to love God is the ultimate gift of God.
Radhanath Swami
#42. They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#43. In the Scriptures, a comrnu- nity is a group of people, living under God's rule, who are learning how to love God and love one another.
Jeffrey Arnold
#44. Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and bea hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave towealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to havedone nothing and succeeded at it.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#45. The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.
Janet Jackson
#46. To love God is to cooperate with His grace. And since I'm so very aware of my own need for grace, I must be willing to freely give it away. Each hole left from rejection must become an opportunity to create more and more space for grace in my heart.
Lysa TerKeurst
#47. At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
John Ortberg
#48. Our responsibility is to love God and to love our neighbour which is what Jesus taught and it's also what Judaism taught - and that would make sense because Jesus was Jewish.
Amy-Jill Levine
#49. Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa
#50. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
Timothy S. Lane
#51. God brings us a song so that we may know joy. He enters our hearts so that we may know how to love. God brings us his word so that we may know how to live our lives. He brings us his peace so that we may be strong. God helps to make the world a more loving place.
Phil Mitchell
#52. Is it possible, that is, to love God no matter what? Job, through three tough tests - the loss of his possessions and children, the loss of his health, and the loss of his friends and their respect - answers in the affirmative. Yes, it is possible. In fact, it is necessary
Sidney Greidanus
#53. I define personal success as being consistent to my own personal mission statement: to love God and love others.
Joel Manby
#54. 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
#55. The Bible says that love is a responsibility. We are commanded to love. God doesn't ask us if we feel like it, He tells us in His Word that it is our responsibility to love.
David Jeremiah
#56. According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.
Bob Riley
#57. To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.
Meher Baba
#58. To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.
Leo Tolstoy
#59. To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
Thomas More
#62. Bapu Gandhi said, 'All religions are true.' I just want to love God.
Yann Martel
#63. Holiness is not to love Jesus and do whatever you want. Holiness is to love God and do what He wants.
C. Wagner
#64. What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.
Henri Nouwen
#66. We are free within the confines of the cross to love God and ask what we want.12
Matthew Lee Anderson
#67. Some of you are sitting at home saying, 'I don't need a church to love God,' and I am here telling you that you are so wrong.
Francis Chan
#69. We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
Angelina Grimke
#70. We cannot claim to love God, if we continue to live in unclean environment and pollute the waters. God gave man and woman the authority to rule every living creature and to safeguard the living resources. We have a duty to perform and responsibility to fulfil this role.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#73. The great problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her.
Gloria Furman
#74. You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
Randall Terry
#75. I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and the neighbor as the self, and I find that's entirely consuming. To do those two things leaves me very little time to do much else.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#76. Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#78. You claim to love God, and yet you disobey God
This is a bizarre way of reasoning
Surely, the lover, if his love is true,
Is most obedient to the one he loves.
Poet
#80. I try to love God, Reverend. I do. But I cannot love these men. I ... I hate them.
Hannah Kent
#81. To love God with our hearts and our minds, let's resolve to glorify God by not being women who fool others or who are easily fooled ourselves. Avoiding a bad thought day depends on it.
Patty Houser
#82. Human love is created with some capacity, however distorted, to love God and to love creatures through God.
Thomas C. Oden
#83. For Christians ... an unreflective faith is not possible if we take seriously the injunction to love God with the mind as well as the heart and soul.
Delwin Brown
#84. 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
#85. To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
John Of The Cross
#86. Salvation brings into the life a new capacity and with it a new ability to think right, to love God, to purpose to do the will of God, to have a changed heart. The heart of the Christian (and this means his intellectual, emotional, volitional, and spiritual life) can now be true and pure (Heb.
Charles C. Ryrie
#87. You go often into the silence, but have you developed anubhava?" He was reminding me to love God more than meditation. "Do not mistake the technique for the Goal.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#88. We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#89. To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.
Elisabeth Elliot
#90. It is impossible to love God without loving our neighbor.
Mother Teresa
#91. Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
Philip Yancey
#92. To love God truly, one must first love man. And if anyone tells you that he loves God and does not love his fellow-man, you will know that he is lying.
Martin Buber
#93. I submit that God has no wishes about how, or even if, we glorify Him. Allow me, then, Jacob, to love God in my own fashion. Franco's
Irvin D. Yalom
#94. Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.
Angie Stone
#95. Nothing trains and teaches so powerfully as love. Love attracts. it does not coerce. If the aim of parents is to teach their children to love God they must show their love for Him by loving each other and loving the children.
Elisabeth Elliot
#96. This mortal life is our playing field. Our goal is to learn to love God and to extend that same love toward our fellowman. We are here to build, uplift, treat fairly, and encourage all of Heavenly Father's children.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#98. God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.
David Bentley Hart
#99. Only when we try to love God will we see our utter inability to do so. And only when we understand that inability, will we begin to be in awe of His great love toward us.
Mike Donehey
#100. Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson