God Is Love Quotes - Page 6

• There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is modified by the different degrees of intelligence in different beings and creatures.

  John James Audubon

  Degrees, Different, Kind

  Robert Buchanan, John James Audubon (2005). “Life and Adventures of Audubon the Naturalist”, p.110, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love" ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  God, Father, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 270), 1895.

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• God never gives dominion to any creature which has not received his image. His image is love. Other things belong to God; but God is love. No creature that has not love will be allowed to have a permanent empire. The Father of mercy will not put the reigns of government into a hand that has no heart. Dominion is a very solemn thing; it may oppress, crush, destroy. The Father must have a guarantee for its gentleness. What guarantee can there be but his image - the possession of a nature tender as the Divine?

  George Matheson

  Crush, Father, Heart

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• God is love and doesn't ask for anything back in return. So it's that process of letting go and just allowing, and just being in that pure state.

  Wayne Dyer

  Letting Go, Return, Just Being

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• God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Hate, Light

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us about this love, so that we could live in this love and extend it to others.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Believe, Giving

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• God is love, the human being is all love, only the human has forgotten it long ago.

  Irina Tweedie

  Long Ago, Forgotten, Humans

  Source: www.goldensufi.org

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• As God illumines all people equally with the light of the sun, so do those who desire to imitate God let shine an equal ray of love on all people. For wherever love disappears, hatred immediately appears in its place. And if God is love, then hatred is the devil. Therefore as one who has love has God within himself, so he who has hatred within himself nurtures the devil within himself.

  Saint Basil

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God

  Charles Williams

  Love, Mean, Emotional

  Charles Williams (2016). “He Came Down From Heaven”, p.11, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God.

  Mother Teresa

  Prove, Has Beens, Serving

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• God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

  Ralph Ellison

  Art, Shadow, Identity

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Three Days Before the Shooting . . .”, p.987, Modern Library

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• You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say "God is love" they will claim that you are taking things out of context!

  Dan Barker

  Bible, Biblical, Tyrants

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Mean, Return

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman”, p.1512, Simon and Schuster

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• To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Seeds of Contemplation". Book by Thomas Merton, 1949.

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• I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Beautiful, Hate

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.205, Beacon Press

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• A Christian knows when it is time to speak of God and when it is better to say nothing and to let love alone speak. He knows that God is love and that God's presence is felt at the very time when the only thing we do is to love.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Christian, Inspiration

  "Deus Caritas Est - First Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI". w2.vatican.va. December 25, 2005.

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• God is love? Not bloody likely.

  Edward Abbey

  Bloody

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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• Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love.

  Rick Warren

  Important, Lessons, Earth

  Rick Warren (2010). “Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose”, p.60, Harper Collins

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• I profess the religion of love,
  Love is my religion and my faith.
  My mother is love
  My father is love
  My prophet is love
  My God is love
  I am a child of love
  I have come only to speak of love.

  Rumi

  Mother, Children, Father

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• The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

  J. I. Packer

  Grace, Merit, Guilty

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2004). “Knowing God Through the Year”, p.196, InterVarsity Press

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• If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kindness, Records, Definitions

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kindness, Definitions, Mere

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Conversation, Truth Of God, Conversion

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• Only God is love, and for this love to be fully realized self must step aside. And not only do we not need a self to love God, but for the same reason we do not need a mind to know him, for that in us which knows God, is God.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Love, Self, Mind

  Bernadette Roberts (1993). “The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey”, p.155, SUNY Press

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• To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is God our father dear. And Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is Man his child and care. Then every man of every clime That prays in his distress Prays to the human form divine: Love Mercy Pity Peace. And all must love the human form In heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

  William Blake

  Love, Peace, Children

  William Blake (2017). “Songs of Innocence and Experience”, p.17, BookRix

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