Top 100 We Love God Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Augustine writes: "We love God, therefore, for what He is in Himself, and [we love] ourselves and our neighbors for His sake." That
Timothy J. Keller
#3. The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.
Meister Eckhart
#4. The great truth about Christianity is not that we love God - it's that God loves us.
Curtis Martin
#5. A quiet disposition and a heart giving thanks at any given moment is the real test of the extent to which we love God at that moment.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#6. And only as we love God supremely is it possible to love our neighbor impartially.
Ellen G. White
#7. Faith will help put us together on the same direction. Faith is building a relationship with God where he is in control. It is about believing although we do not always see. Do we love God with all our heart, mind, and soul? Can we follow his voice?
Phil Mitchell
#9. What is important is how well we love. God will make our
love fruitful, whether we see that fruitfulness or not.
Henri Nouwen
#10. 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
#11. Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#13. If we can not love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we can not see?
Mother Teresa
#14. The more we love God, the more unpleasant sin becomes.
Criss Jami
#15. A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear if only we realized - really realized - that we go to pray not because we love prayer, but because we love God.
Hubert Van Zeller
#16. If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.
John Piper
#17. We love others best when we love God most.
Kyle Idleman
#18. If we love God above all, we are tapping into the source of His love.
Sunday Adelaja
#19. Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
John Calvin
#20. This isn't a very popular idea in the American church, where we separate our love for God from our service to God. We say we love God most, but it's a vague statement that yields little action.
Francis Chan
#21. But we can't love anything in the right way unless we love God more.
Bob Kauflin
#22. Do we love God - all of God, including the "tough" parts of His nature - or do we refuse to bow before those elements that cause us "problems"? If we love Him and worship Him as He deserves, we will not dare to "edit" Him to fit our desires. Instead, we will seek to worship Him in truth.
James R. White
#23. Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
Simone Weil
#24. But the truth is, real love denies self to give those we love God's best. So I said no to Collin and yes to God, and I truly believe that's why our marriage is so wonderful today. Because the Bible is clear - God honors those who honor him.
Julie Lessman
#25. The more we obey God, the more we desire to help others. The more we help others, the more we love God and on and on. Conversely, the more we disobey God and the more selfish we are, the less love we feel.
John H. Groberg
#26. When we love God because we feel we SHOULD love him, instead of genuinely love out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.
Francis Chan
#27. Do we really need to be fed more of the Word, or are we simply undernourished from an absence of living the Word? Maybe we love God, but are we loving others? If our faith is about us, then we are not just hungry - our spirits are starving.
Jen Hatmaker
#28. To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.
John Woolman
#29. We love God with our mind by taking the time to fill our mind with the Word.
Mike Bickle
#30. We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.
Miroslav Volf
#31. Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
Gary North
#32. We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.
Thomas Aquinas
#33. 20 If someone says, "I love God," but hates a Christian brother or sister,* that person is a liar; for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? 21 And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their Christian brothers and sisters.*
Anonymous
#34. If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.
Ezra Taft Benson
#35. The real test of progress is how we love God and our neighbor. Everything else is fluff, and potentially dangerous fluff, at that. It gets in the eyes, so that we no longer see clearly as God sees
Michael Pocock
#36. On the path of love we feel that if we love today, it's only because God is loving through us, because there is a special grace present with which we can love.
Frederick Lenz
#37. God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.
Francis Chan
#38. In Lubbock, we grew up with two main things: God loves you and he's gonna send you to hell, and that sex is bad and dirty and nasty and awful and you should save it for the one you love.
Butch Hancock
#39. It teaches us not to regard others according to their own merits, but to consider in them the image of God to which we owe both honor and love. But
John Calvin
#40. We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
Miguel De Cervantes
#41. 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
#42. The scripture is clear that we have a capacity for love because of God's love for us
Sunday Adelaja
#43. In God we Believe And god believes in love.
Ujas Soni
#44. The more loving, kind and simple we are, the more we resemble the God.
Debasish Mridha
#45. We learn to love imperfect people by serving them out of reverence for a perfect God...
Gary Thomas
#46. There is always more we can do in ministry, but God is not asking 'Can you do more?'. He is asking 'Do you love me?' Some of those extras are not always as vital as we think them to be.
Christopher Ash
#47. I'm a little frightened, perhaps. We always are, aren't we? When we have to open a door that's always been there...but we've never opened. [...] I mean frightened by the immensity of what lies beyond the door. A God of Love--infinite and eternal. How could I ever be worthy of that?
Tony Hendra
#48. Meg," he whispered. "It wouldn't be real love if there weren't the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn't choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That's why there's evil in this world, because there's free choice in this world. He allows the one to prove the other.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#49. We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.
Corrie Ten Boom
#50. God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.
Paul David Tripp
#51. Dear God, I surrender this relationship to you," means, "Dear God, let me see this person through your eyes." In accepting the Atonement, we are asking to see as God sees, think as God thinks, love as God loves. We are asking for help in seeing someone's innocence.
Marianne Williamson
#52. True love involves a willingness to change, to become more like the ones we love. Love is dynamic, not static. God may accept us just as we are - but he isn't going to leave us there. God wants to move us on, to help us become the people we are meant to be.
Alister E. McGrath
#53. We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.
John Calvin
#54. God's true love pretty much nullifies dating as we know it ...
It seems that dating as we have come to know it doesn't really prepare us for marriage; instead it can be a training ground for divorce. We cannot practice life-long commitment in a series of short-term relationships.
Joshua Harris
#55. We are free within the confines of the cross to love God and ask what we want.12
Matthew Lee Anderson
#56. Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.
J.I. Packer
#57. If we have a relationship with Jesus Christ and believe the Bible to be the Word of God, then we have no room for wallowing in the swamp of self-pity.
Lois Mowday Rabey
#58. We cannot trade empty for empty
We must go to the waterfall
For there's a break in the cup that holds love ...
Inside us all.
David Wilcox
#59. Faith is not limited to affirming the existence of God. No, faith tells us that God loves us and demands a loving response. This response is given through love for human beings, and that is what we mean by a commitment to God and to our neighbor.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#60. We fail in the work of grace and love when there is too much of us and not enough of God.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#61. We just can't love without God. God wants for us want we want for ourselves. These basic things are not that hard to grasp. We just have to have faith, and faith is a gift. We just need to accept it.
Rich Mullins
#62. I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.
Little Richard
#63. For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion ... even God."
"It is like that for me too," I said. "In English we call that a metaphor."
"Of course," said Renato, "and water is the most abundant metaphor on earth.
Pam Houston
#64. The cross of Jesus says to us there is nothing God won't do to bring us home
except force us to choose him. The cross is God laying down his great power so we might be compelled by the beauty of his heart. He will not coerce us, but only woo us.
Jonathan Martin
#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. Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything ... It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#67. we love the way Jesus loves, good things will happen all in good time; if we try to force God's hand, we will only wind up with a lot of frustration and disappointment.
Bill Searcey
#68. If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ... Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
Thomas Jefferson
#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. The amount of God's love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.
Corrie Ten Boom
#71. Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst of the pain, from being afflicted by Him who loves us, and whom we love.
John Wesley
#72. It's describing the mystery of faith. I think it describes how difficult it is to believe in God's presence even when we can't see Him, even when we feel so alone and need His presence.
Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
#73. The end result of all Bible study is worship, and the end result of all worship is service to the God we love.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#74. Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#75. The task is the same in every generation: If God's Word is to be heard, we who love it must stand in its defense.
James R. White
#76. God loves us just because of who we are, not because of what we do, not because we've got it all together, and not because of our efforts - or lack of effort . There is nothing we can do to make God love us any more, and there's nothing we can do to make him love us any less.
Kurt W. Bubna
#77. A lot of times, the reason we struggle to feel and receive the love of God - to see ourselves as His beloved, adopted children - is because we're not pursuing in our everyday lives those things His Word describes as being valuable and significant.
Matt Chandler
#78. The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, striking sparks, and rubbing phosphorescences out of the walls, and blowing our own breath in our own nostrils, instead of issuing to the fair sunlight of God, the sweet winds of the universe.
George MacDonald
#79. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.
Anonymous
#80. We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
Timothy Keller
#81. The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God, and Christ is evidence for the forgiveness of God. It is when we are wrapped up in our own little peeves that we begin to displace His benevolence with malevolence.
Criss Jami
#82. Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.
Mother Teresa
#83. By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.
Donald Miller
#84. We were friends. It was as big a deal as being in love." She tried to think of a way to make Amelie understand. "It was a revelation, being friends like that. God, it was holy to me. But it wasn't being in love.
Marisa De Los Santos
#85. We become truly personal by loving God and by loving other humans ... In its deepest sense, love is the life, the energy, of the Creator in us.
Kallistos Ware
#86. There's nothing more that we love than having a close, personal, open relationship, and I believe that's what God wants.
Lenny Kravitz
#87. If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.
Julian Of Norwich
#88. Your faithfulness and mercies forever abide,we trust in You Jehovah - Ahavah, The Lord is love.
Amy E. Tobin
#89. 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
#90. We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.
Saint Augustine
#91. We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace.
Fulton J. Sheen
#92. In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure.
Brother Lawrence
#93. That the most excellent method he had found of going to GOD, was that of doing our common business without any view of pleasing men, [Gal. i. 10; Eph. vi. 5, 6.] and (as far as we are capable) purely for the love of GOD.
Brother Lawrence
#94. The Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. But if you vote for them you're throwing your vote away.
Rick Mercer
#95. Listen close and you can hear, Please, bless us and forgive us, and make us good here and strong here. Let us get along here. Let those we love and left behind be blessed. Let us find the proper path and keep to it. Help us act harmoniously, and find work pleasing in the sight of god and man.
Janet Morris
#96. God has brought us together as families to bring to pass His eternal purposes. We are part of this plan in this marriage relationship. let us love and respect and honor one another. We can do it, and we will be the better for it.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#97. But all of us-at home, at war, wherever we may be-are within the reach of God's love and power. We all can pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of God's will.
Harry S. Truman
#98. May those who love us love us," Lancaster said suddenly as he held up his wine. "And those that don't love us, may God turn their hearts. And if He doesn't turn their hearts, may He turn their ankles, so we'll know them by their limping.
Madeleine Urban
#99. This is perhaps the hardest truth of any to grasp. Do we wake up every morning amazed that we are loved by God?
David Ford
#100. We enjoy hearing about God's greatness and his love for us, but we also need to think about his commandments - even if they are uncomfortable at first,
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