Love of God

“If I become content by having my desire satisfied, that is only self-love; but when I am contented with the hand of God and am willing to be at His disposal, that comes from my love to God.”

“I have what I have from the love of God.”

“Here we see the infinite love of God, that He has been pleased to think of us poor creatures from everlasting.”

“My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.”

“God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood, they cost him dearly. That which is obtained by such great expense, shall not be easily lost.”

“The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.”

“Mercy is the special commendation of divine love.”

“The reason we meditate little is because we love God little.”

“Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.”

“The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to Him, is not to believe that He loves you.”

“The love of God is like himself, equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves, unequal, increasing, waning, growing, declining.”

“God loves, that he may be beloved.”

“So much as we see of the love of God, so much shall we delight in him, and no more.”

“That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.”

“Lay down then your reasonings; take up the love of the Father upon a pure act of believing, and that will open your soul to let it out unto the Lord in the communion of love.”

“How many millions of sins in every one of the elect, every one of which is enough to condemn them all, hath this love overcome!”

“The Comforter gives a sweet and plentiful evidence and persuasion of the love of God to us, such as the soul is taken, delighted, satiated withal.”

“He is a gracious Father, and he hath taken this sweet relation on him for this purpose, that we may have comfort in all conditions.”

“Christ died, not because God the Father hated—but because He loved the world.”

“He loves all, and gives outward benefits to all, but to me he hath given himself, so love I him.”

“Even if sin did not bear such bitter fruit, if death did not grow on this tree, a gracious soul would forsake it out of love to God.”

“Speaking the truth in love," is the substance of our Christian profession.”

“That bit of bread he has is with the love of God, and that sauce makes it relish sweet.”

“O that I might behold Your heart-ravishing smiles!" "Lord, I am Yours and You are mine!”

“He wanted to make known the heights and depths of His love, and nothing except the depths of our misery could have drawn them out.”

“Let us labour to maintain this assurance of salvation from God's love.”

“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children," how much more does God!”

“So is it over a lost world that the heart of God has gone forth pouring itself out in all its unutterable tenderness of compassion.”

“He who loves God, walks with God, dwells with God, is like God.”

“Now it hath pleased Him to renew His love to my soul, and to dawt His poor prisoner.”

“If you have such a glorious inheritance to come—admire, and thankfully adore the love of God in settling this rich charter upon you!”

“However, I know that you are in safe and merciful hands, and that the Lord loves you better than we can do.”

“He can see hidden love, and hidden faith and grace, that we cannot see in temptations; and he will manifest all at length, and show his love when we stand most in need of it.”

“He loved thee when thou hadst razed out in a great measure his image and picture which he had set in thy soul, will he hate thee now since he has restored that image, and drawn it with fresh colours?”

“And as wicked men, whom he always hates, may out of his patience have a truce; so, on the contrary, with his own, God may take up a quarrel; yet he loves them, and remembers them with everlasting kindness.”

“The perfection of both is, to fear and love the Lord with all the heart and all the soul, and to walk in all his ways.”

“For unmerited love; i. e., love exercised towards the undeserving.”

“How worthy of such an infinite Fountain of love and grace is His "unspeakable gift." It came from a large heart; and the heart that gave Jesus will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.”

“Do you love your own children, your own sons and daughters — and will you not love the Son of God?”

“Heavenly joy consists in loving with all the heart, and in being beloved.”

“How would earthly things be overvalued and idolized, if besides their conveniency to our bodies, they should be the marks and evidences of God's love to our souls!”

“He has as much love in his heart to pity us—and as much strength in his arm to help us!”

“Now he that hath the Spirit of God knows the love of God in Christ to him; it reveals the love of God, the height, and breadth, and depth of it to our spirits.”

“Therefore, because in love he would die, and be a sacrifice, he would take upon him such a nature wherein he might be a sacrifice.”

“The infinitude of His love is shown in the gift of His dear Son to accomplish salvation, to endure our curse, to bring us safely to the heaven of heavens, to present us faultless before the presence of His glory.”

“The father of the prodigal was the forwarder of the two to that joyful meeting.”

“He gives us something to sweeten our pilgrimage here—some tastes of his love— these are the pledge and first-fruits.”

“Again, as they spring from the love of God, so they tend to the honour of God; for what comes from heaven, goes to heaven back again.”

“If we do anything to God, and do it not in love, he regards it not.”

“Love in its proper exercise gives a mutual inhabitation unto God and believers.”

“All we can say is that 'we have known and believed the love which God hath to us.' This is the only account which we can give of ourselves or of our wondrous change.”

“It is so free and so rich love, that I am not able to declare it.”

“Faith works by love in all duties; and it works by hope in this duty.”

“We give the creature the milk of our love; but God gets the cream!”

“Is it the holiness, the amiableness, the love, the goodness, that is in him, which draws thy heart unto him?”

“We show our love in return by obeying the stipulations or laws of his covenant.”

“Faith pulls off the mask from his face and sees a loving heart under contrary appearances.”

“O that day! when shall that day come that my soul shall never sin more against that God that I do love?”

“He has the Father's heart, which beats with tenderness, incapable of diminution or of change.”

“O! this is my Beloved, this is my Friend: if I had ten thousand hearts and hands to give, he should have them all.”

“And love, in whomsoever it is, is the most predominant of all dispositions; whatsoever is good and whatsoever is excellent in any, love hath the command of it; and so it hath in God.”

“Such a thing is grace and love: all the excellencies in God are ordained to be the object, the fuel of it; yet it can neither consume, nor be consumed, but abounds still yet more and more.”

“What perfect love must we understand here, but that which puts fear to flight, and that which animates us to a confession of Christ?”

“Let us adore, with every power of adoration, the love of the Father, in opening the door by which He came.”

“Even as a king that loveth his favourite, if any one comes to accuse him, it provokes him—his love doth—so much the more not only to pardon him, but to shew his love to him.”

“For them we take the most care, and in them we place our chief delight, whereas God in Christ should have all the affections of our hearts.”

“What should a Child love most but to be in the presence of his Father?”