You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
– Assorted Authors
Love | Giving
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Love
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Love
Human things must be known to be loved; but Divine things must be loved to be known.
– Blaise Pascal
Love
Our love to God is measured by our everyday fellowship with others and the love it displays.
– Andrew Murray
Fellowship | Love
The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.
– Rick Warren
Love | Time
Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.
– Dwight L. Moody
Faith | Love
We cannot do great things on this earth, only small things with great love.
– Mother Teresa
Love
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours
– Phillips Brooks
Forgiveness | Love
If you judge people, you have no time to love them
– Mother Teresa
Love | Judging
Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.
– Rick Warren
Love | Wealth
Love is friendship set on fire.
– Jeremy Taylor
Love | Friendship | Fire
He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.
– Augustine
Prayer | Love
Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
– John Calvin
Love
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
– Mother Teresa
Love
Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.
– Mother Teresa
Love
I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world
– Mother Teresa
Love
Love is the great conqueror of lust.
– C.S. Lewis
Love | Lust
I can’t make you love me, but you can’t keep me from loving you.
– Jack Hyles
Love
We are here to love. Not much else matters.
– Francis Chan
Love
I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.
– Francis Chan
Love
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
– Mother Teresa
Love
He measures our lives by how we love.
– Francis Chan
Love
God, in His love always wills what is best for us.
– Jerry Bridges
God | Love
For instance, God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us. It takes no character to love people who are lovely and loving to you.
– Rick Warren
Love
To love is to be vulnerable.
– C.S. Lewis
Love
There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.
– Mother Teresa
Love
If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.
– Richard Baxter
Love
You can always give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
– Amy Carmichael
GivingLove
There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.
– William Law
PrayerLove
Self-pity, self-love, fear of suffering, withdrawal from the cross: these are some of the manifestations of the soul life, for its prime motivation is the self-preservation. It is exceedingly reluctant to endure any loss.
– Watchman Nee
Self-pity | The Cross | Self-love
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
– Thomas a Kempis
Love | Purity
Love and truth must be maintained in perfect balance. Truth is never to be abandoned in the name of love. But love is not to be deposed in the name of truth… Truth without love has no decency; it’s just brutality. On the other hand, love without truth has no character; it’s just hypocrisy.
– John MacArthur
Love | Truth
The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.
– William Gurnall
Love | Fear
Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.
– Billy Graham
Love | Marriage | Home
When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
– C.S. Lewis
Marriage | Love
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace.
– A. W. Tozer
Self-love
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
– Warren Wiersbe
Love | Truth | Hypocrisy
To love to preach is one thing to love those to whom we preach, quite another.
– Richard Cecil
Preaching | Love
In the New Testament, love is more of a verb than a noun. It has more to do with acting than with feeling. The call to love is not so much a call to a certain state of feeling as it is to a quality of action.
– R. C. Sproul
Love | Feelings
You will never really love until you love someone who hates you.
– Jack Hyles
Love | Hatred
Where Love is, God is.
– Henry Drummond
Love | God
Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself.
– William Law
Happiness | Freedom | Love
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
– Blaise Pascal
Love
Fight hate with love, persecution with prayer, indifference with compassion, and bad with good.
– Jack Wellman
Evil | Good | Love
Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.
– Rick Warren
Love | Learning
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
– Augustine
Love | Beauty
The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.
– Dwight L. Moody
Love
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
– David Wilkerson
Love
The world is not a play-ground; it is a school-room. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love.
– Henry Drummond
Life | Love
If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do.
– Dwight L. Moody
Love
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
– Augustine
Love | Charity | Helping
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
– Billy Graham
Love | Weakness | Strength
Being loved is life’s second greatest blessing; loving is the greatest.
– Jack Hyles
Love
I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.
– John Newton
Love | Humility
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love
Love is a gift of God.
– Jack Hyles
Love
Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor; act as if you did.
– C.S. Lewis
Love | Friendship
[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.
– Tim Keller
Friendship | Love | Marriage
God’s people must not love their soul life even to the point of death. Unless self-love or self-pity is committed to the cross they shall surely be defeated by the adversary.
– Watchman Nee
Self-pity | The Cross | Self-love
Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.
– Jack Hyles
LoveSelfishnessService
Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates them is impalpable, and in every act of trust, love is present; and fundamental to every emotion of love to Christ is trust in Christ.
– Alexander MacLaren
Faith | Love
The Pentecostal power, when you sum it all up, is just more of God’s love. If it does not bring more love, it is simply a counterfeit.
– William J. Seymour
Power | Love
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
– Blaise Pascal
Love | God | Knowledge
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
– G.K. Chesterton
Love | Faith | Forgiveness
In biblical thinking, genuine love exists only when good works are done in a context where God rather than the doer gets the credit.
– Daniel Fuller
Love
Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all.
– Frederick Buechner
Love
Everything God does is love — even when we do not understand Him.
– Basilea Schlink
Love
For human beings self-worship is the worst sin, for God it is the epitome of His righteousness. The Unity of the Bible
– Daniel Fuller
Self-love
Though we cannot think alike may we not love alike?
– John Wesley
Love
I cannot love you as I love myself until I love God as I ought to love Him.
– Jack Hyles
Love
Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.
– William Barclay
Love | Responsibility
When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.
– C.S. Lewis
Love
All sorts of people are fond of repeating the Christian statement that “God is love.” But they seem not to notice that the words ‘God is love’ have no real meaning unless God contains at least two persons. Love is something that one person has for another person. If God was a single person, then before the world was made, He was not love.
– C.S. Lewis
Love | The Trinity
We want people to understand that we’re not just an organization about creation and evolution; we’re not just talking about the age of the Earth and fossils — of course we talk about those things. But we’re Christians — and as Christians, we wanted to show love to them.
– Ken Ham
Creation | Love | Evolution
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Love | Disappointment
Love refuseth nothing that love sends.
– William Gurnall
Love
The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
– Dwight L. Moody
Prayer | Self-love
Love, and do what you will.
– Augustine
Love
Where love is the compelling power, there is no sense of strain or conflict or bondage in doing what is right: the man or woman who is compelled by Jesus’ love and empowered by His Spirit does the will of God from the heart.
– F.F. Bruce
Love | The Heart
If you love your ‘Truths’ more than you love people, then you are an out-and-out Pharisee. Nothing less. And you will create condemnation and death in people, rather than ‘conviction’ and LIFE.
– Andrew Strom
LoveLife
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Love | Hatred
If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.
– Chuck Swindoll
Love
Self-love vitiates all relationships. Diotrephes (3 John 9-10) slandered (the Apostle) John, cold-shouldered the missionaries and excommunicated loyal believers-all because he loved himself and wanted to have pre-eminence. Personal vanity still lies at the root of most dissensions in every local church today.
– John Stott
Self-love | Relationships
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Hatred | Love
Self-love is, no doubt, the usual foundation of human jealousy…the fear lest another should by any means supplant us.
– Charles Spurgeon
Self-love | Jealousy
God, harden me against myself!
– Amy Carmichael
Self-love
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Love | Bitterness
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
– Thomas Aquinas
Love | Knowledge
Love, and do what you like.
– Augustine
Love | Philosophy
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
– Blaise Pascal
Love
Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled.
– Thomas Brooks
Mercy | Love
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
– Hannah More
Love
Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creature’s will.
– Alexander MacLaren
Love
Sociologists argue that in contemporary Western society the marketplace has become so dominant that the consumer model increasingly characterizes most relationships that historically were covenantal, including marriage. Today we stay connected to people only as long as they are meeting our particular needs at an acceptable cost to us. When we cease to make a profit – that is, when the relationship appears to require more love and affirmation from us than we are getting back – then we ‘cut our loses’ and drop the relationship. This has also been called ‘commodification,’ a process by which social relationships are reduced to economic exchange relationships, and so the very idea of ‘covenant’ is disappearing in our culture. Covenant is therefore a concept increasingly foreign to us, and yet the Bible says it is the essence of marriage.
– Tim Keller
Love | Marriage
It was a deep true thought which the old painters had, when they drew John as likest to his Lord. Love makes us like.
– Alexander MacLaren
Love
We never love a person, but only qualities.
– Blaise Pascal
Love
Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us.
– Tim Keller
Love | Marriage | Time
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Worship | Love
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
– Hannah More
Love