The Love of Christ

“The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.”

“Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it.”

“I feel myself to be a lump of unworthiness, a mass of corruption, and a heap of sin, apart from His almighty love.”

“Christ is lovely, Christ is very lovely, Christ is most lovely, Christ is always lovely, Christ is altogether lovely.”

“The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.”

“They do not love Christ who love anything more than Christ.”

“We trust as we love, and we trust where we love; if you love Christ much surely you will trust Him much.”

“Christ doth not love believers with a low, flat, dull, common love, with such a love as most men love one another with, but with a love that is like himself.”

“There is comfort concerning such infirmities, in that your very sins move him to pity more than to anger. This text is plain for it, for he suffers with us under our infirmities, and by infirmities are meant sins, as well as other miseries.”

“Love descends better than ascends, and so does the love of Christ, who indeed is love itself, and therefore comes down to us himself.”

“So, says Christ, injuries and unkindnesses do not so work upon me as to make me irreconcilable; it is my nature to forgive: "I am meek.”

“Christ cannot love me better than he doth; I think I cannot love Christ better than I do; I am swallowed up in God.”

“Would you love Christ, use him much, and then more you will prize him, and more you will love him.”

“We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.”

“You love him not, because you know him not.”

“Christ so loves his people that he sings with joy over them.”

“I am going to him whom my soul has loved, or rather who has loved me with an everlasting love, which is the whole ground of my consolation.”

“For if all the curses of the law lighting and abiding upon a man, will prove a man an accursed man — then the man who has no sincere love to Christ, must be that man!”

“He was so much the friend of man, that he was willing to lay down his life for human redemption.”

“He loved them when they were polluted in their sins, and washed them with His own blood; He loved them when they were naked in their souls, and clothed them with robes of His righteousness.”

“Whether I have a race to run, or some work to do, I see not; but I think Christ seemeth to leave heaven (to say so), and His court, and come down to laugh, and play, and sport with a daft bairn.”

“So in this verse by the love of Christ unto His church is meant the actual declaration of His special favor in accepting them for His children and bestowing many singular blessings upon them.”

“Why? 'He hath loved me, and given himself for me;' and I feel so much to my soul's comfort, therefore I will wholly depend upon him, in life, in death, and for ever.”

“The disciples were very weak now; and yet, notwithstanding all their infirmities, they loved Christ; they cast themselves upon him, and had not chosen another Saviour.”

“The names are on His breast—a token that, while His heart beats, it beats for them.”

“True happiness, joy, and peace will ever be strangers to your heart until it tastes the love of the Savior.”

“And, my brethren, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, as he is married thus to his church, he will shew himself the most fond and perfect lover that ever was.”

“He should be the dearer to us, the more vile and base he was made for us, and he should be most lovely in our eyes, when he was least lovely in his own, and when he was deformed, when our sins were upon him.”

“That he is a good Savior, a good Redeemer, a good Lord and Master; a good excelling, transcending all inferior, sublunary good; good! not only good, but best — best in himself, and best for us!”

“Brutes are not capable of this love to Christ—but you are capable.”

“They cannot desire his coming to them, so much as he desires their coming to him.”

“When the damned do not love Christ, nor can love him, for they have not Christ, nor can have him.”

“All other things you might love are as common to lost people, as well as to the saved.”

“Let the love of Jesus compel you to live a life pleasing to Him, in order to glorify Him here, and patiently wait until He takes you to be eternally with Himself.”

“So much the more dearer he should be unto us, the more base he was for us.”

“It is the nature of love, to desire union to the object beloved, especially of this love to Christ; and, this union being attained, the desires are after communion with Christ, converse and fellowship with Him.”

“We shall have far other thoughts of Jesus when we see him as he is; and shall then be able to make a more affecting estimate of the love which moved him to be made a substitute and a curse for us.”

“How would my soul rejoice over you, as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, if you would but entertain and embrace me as your Bridegroom!”

“Again, Christ takes all the prayers of the seed of Jacob, and tenders them up to his Father for acceptance.”

“O cruel time, that tormenteth us, and suspendeth our dearest enjoyments that we wait for, when we shall be bathed and steeped, soul and body, down in the depths of this Love of Loves!”

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

“He is a jewel more worth than a thousand worlds—as all know that have him.”

“Oh, how little doth this world see of Him, and how far are they from the love of Him, seeing there is so much loveliness, beauty, and sweetness in Christ, that no created eye did ever yet see!”

“How strong was the love of the Apostles unto Christ—when they left all and followed Him, especially after the resurrection of Christ and His ascension into heaven.”

“If God does not teach us the reality of love to Christ in all his people, he teaches us nothing.”

“Serious meditation on the love of Christ, would make us love him in return.”

“These promises are so many, so great, so precious — and all are sure to the lovers of Christ.”

“And now, Christians, think what a sin , what a shame , what a folly it is—that you should have so little love unto Jesus Christ!”

“Could you see the glances of His eye, and the sweet smiles of His lovely face—your hearts would be overcome and ravished with love, and filled with ecstasies of joy and ineffable delight!”

“Nay, He calls unto us standing without, “Open unto me my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled.”

“My Well-beloved hath ravished me; but it is done with consent of both parties, and it is allowable enough.”

“O "says the spouse, set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm." As the priest had the tribes of Israel upon his breast, so Christ has his people set as a seal upon his heart; she can never be out of his mind.”

“Oh what a thing is this, that a man on earth should love Christ no more than the devils in Hell?”

“It was the love of Christ which made Him to fulfill all righteousness for you.”

“And now, Christians, think what a sin, what a shame, what a folly it is—that you should have so little love unto Jesus Christ!”

“He rejoiced in the habitable parts of the earth, and his delights were with the sons of men." 2.”