Quotes on Christian Love

I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God's love for them in Christ.

A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.

From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.

The first secret to loving others is to immerse yourself in a love relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit - and abide there.

A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when you also give your time, your energy, and your resourcefulness to help end such abuses for good, and when you allow nothing that lies hidden in the storehouse of your Christian religion to remain unused against the cancer that is destroying the vitality of our society in such alarming ways.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

In the poor and outcast we see Christ’s face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power.

Let those desert places in our hearts bloom.

Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple.

No one leads people to Jesus; He leads people to Himself. All the pressure's off; just go love everybody without agenda.

To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is an unchristian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erotic and everything of that nature. But to the Christian love is the works of love. Christ's love was not an inner feeling, a full heart and what not, it was the work of love which was his life.

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

Being a disciple means being constantly ready to bring the love of Jesus to others, and this can happen unexpectedly and in any place: on the street, in a city square, during work, on a journey.