Quotes on God Love

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.

To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.

God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

Open your hearts to the love God instills . . . God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but to be shared.

I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free. But it is only in freedom that you can find out what is true, what is God, not through any belief; because your belief projects what you think God ought to be, what you think ought to be true. If you believe God is love, God is good, God is this or that, your very belief prevents you from understanding what is God, what is true.

In our universe there is God and there are people and things. We were made so that we should worship God, love people and use things. However if we worship ourselves, we will ignore God, start loving things and begin to use people.

Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.

The proclamation and witness of the Gospel are the first service that Christians can offer every person and the whole human race, as they are called to communicate to all the love of God, who manifested himself fully in the only Redeemer of the world, Jesus Christ.

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.

Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist

Remember this: When I am gone, only love can take my place. Be absorbed night and day in the love of God, and give that love to all.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah - it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man.

Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it's what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them.

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

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.

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.

The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.