God Is Love Quotes

• As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

  Edith Stein

  Love, Christian, Mean

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• God is love. He didn't need us. But he wanted us.

  Rick Warren

  Needs, Wanted

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• God's unfailing love for us is an objective fact affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. It is true whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God's love, nor does our faith create it. It originates in the very nature of God, who is love, and it flows to us through our union with His beloved Son.

  Jerry Bridges

  Believe, Son, Doubt

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.163, NavPress

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• Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love, God, Christian

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• 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 Omartian

  Women, History, Perfect

  Stormie Omartian (2007). “The Power of a Praying Woman Deluxe Edition”, p.36, Harvest House Publishers

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• Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God

  John the Apostle

  Love, Bible, Breaking Silence

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• 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.

  John the Apostle

  Love, Son, Sin

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• The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Hands, Grace

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• God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

  John the Apostle

  God, Love Life, I Love Jesus

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• When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Time, Needs, God Love

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• 'God is Love' means that He tries constantly to block your route to destruction.

  Billy Graham

  Block, Mean, Trying

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.228, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What binds us together is love, and only love. For love is a Person. Love is God.

  Catherine Doherty

  Love Is, Together, Persons

  "Sobornost". Book by Catherine Doherty, 1977.

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• God is love, but get it in writing.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Women, Memorable, Writing

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 1 Dec. 1988

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

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Faith, God

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• We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.

  Brennan Manning

  Holy Ground, Names, Mouths

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.68, Multnomah

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• One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Grace, Bears

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.525

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• If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Love Is, May

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Saving us is the greatest and most concrete demonstration of God's love, the definitive display of His grace throughout time and eternity.

  David Jeremiah

  Time, Grace, Saving

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• But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God's love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin to be sincere. His sincerity is based on confidence, not in his own illusions about himself, but in the endless, unfailing mercy of God.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Mercy Of God, May

  Thomas Merton (2002). “No Man Is an Island”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Doors, Special

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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• On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

  Edith Stein

  Spiritual, Mean, Love Is

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• God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

  Imelda Marcos

  Heaven

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God is love; to do his will is to scatter love in handfuls of blessing on a weary world.

  F.B. Meyer

  Blessing, World, Weary

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• To say that God is love is in effect to say simply that love is God.

  Don Cupitt

  Love, Effects, Love Is

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• I am God, says Love, for Love is God and God is Love, and this Soul is God by the condition of Love. I am God by divine nature and this Soul is God by the condition of Love. Thus this precious beloved of mine is taught and guided by me, without herself, for she is transformed into me, and such a perfect one, says Love, takes my nourishment.

  Marguerite Porete

  Love Is, Perfect One, Soul

  Marguerite Porete, Ellen L. Babinsky (1993). “The Mirror of Simple Souls”, p.104, Paulist Press

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