Happy Valentine's Day!
Verses and
Quotes on Love
If we work upon
marble, it will perish. If we work upon
brass, time will efface it. If we rear temples, they will crumble to dust. But, if we work upon men's immortal minds, if
we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God, with love of
their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can
efface and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity. –Daniel
Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes
from selfishness to service and from solitude to kinship with all mankind.
–Anonymous
Could we with ink the oceans fill and were the skies of
parchment made and every stalk on earth quill and every man a scribe by trade,
to write the love of God above would drain the oceans dry, nor could that
scroll contain the whole though stretched from sky to sky. --Scribbled on an
asylum wall, also found in the hymn “The Love of God” & inspired the movie Indescribable, –a good family friendly
movie!
Love is the only service that power cannot command and
money cannot buy. –Anonymous
What we love we grow to resemble. --Bernard of Clairvaux
The true measure of loving God is to love Him without
measure. --Bernard of Clairvaux
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
--Feodor Dostoevski
You will find as you look back on your life that the
moments that stand out above everything else are the moments when you have done
things in a spirit of love. --Henry Drummond
Instead of allowing yourself to be so unhappy, just let
your love grow as God wants it to grow; seek goodness in others, love more
persons more; love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thought of
return. The return, never fear, will
take care of itself. –Drummond
Love is the purification of the heart from self. It strengthens and ennobles the character,
gives a higher motive and worthier aim to every action of life, and makes both
man and woman courageous. The power to
love truly and devotedly is the highest gift with which a human being can be
endowed. –Endsor
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
--John Knox
The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the
humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
--Saadia Ben Joseph
If the tender, profound, and sympathizing love, practiced
and recommended by Jesus, were paramount in every heart, the loftiest and most
glorious idea of human society would be realized, and little be wanting to make
this world a kingdom of heaven. --Friedrick Wilhelm Krummacher
There is no disguise which can for long conceal love
where it exists or simulate it where it does not. -La Rouchefoucauld
When any church will inscribe over its altars, as its
sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement for the
substance of both law and gospel, "Thou shalt love the Lord the God with
all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind," and
"... thy neighbor as thyself," that church will I join with all my
heart and soul. --Abraham Lincoln
Nor father or mother has loved you as God has, for it was
that you might be happy when He gave His only Son. When He bowed His head in the death hour,
love solemnized its triumph; the sacrifice there was completed. --Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
Love can hope where reason
would despair. –Lyttelton
If you neglect your love to your neighbor, in vain you
profess your love to God; for by your love to God, the love to your neighbor is
begotten, and by the love to your neighbor, your love to God is nourished.
--Francis Quarles
They are the true disciples of Christ, not who know most,
but who love most. --Frederich Spanheim the Elder
In math, if you divide an infinite number by any number,
no matter how large, you still have an infinite quotient. So Jesus' love, being infinite, even though
it is divided up for every person on earth, is still infinitely poured out on
each one of us! –Spurgeon
If you make doctrine the main thing, you are very likely
to grow narrow-minded. If you make your
own experience the main thing, you will become gloomy and critical of
others. If you make ordinances the main
thing, you will be apt to grow merely formal.
But you can never make too much of the living Christ Jesus. Remember that all things else are for his
sake. Doctrines and ordinances are the
planets, but Christ is the sun. Get to
love him best of all. –Spurgeon
I cannot bear it that we should love Jesus little. It seems to me horrible. Let us love him to the utmost. Let us ask him to give us larger hearts, and
to fire them with the flame that is in his own, that we may love him to the
utmost possibilities of affection. –Spurgeon
The heart will commonly govern the head; and any strong
passion, set the wrong way, will soon infatuate even the wisest of men;
therefore, the first part of wisdom is to watch the affections.
-Waterland
1 Corinthians 13
1 Though I speak
with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become
sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
2 And though I
have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and
though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I
am nothing.
3 And though I bestow
all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have
not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love suffers
long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not
puffed up;
5 does not behave
rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
6 does not rejoice
in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
7 bears all
things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never
fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are
tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
9 For we know in
part and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that
which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a
child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but
when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see
in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall
know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide
faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
(NKJV)
De 6:5 "You shall love the LORD your God with all
your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
Matthew 22
37 Jesus said to
him," 'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your
soul, and with all your mind.'
38 "This is
the first and great commandment.
39 "And the
second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
40 "On these
two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."
(NKJV)
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