God Love Quotes - Page 27

• To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.

  Thomas Merton

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Grateful

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.48, Macmillan

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• It consists in a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitude of God's gifts, taken one by one. It fills us with a consciousness that God loves and cares for us, even to the least event and smallest need of life; and that we actually have received, and do now possess as our own, gifts which come direct from God. It is a blessed thought, that from our childhood God has been laying His fatherly hands upon us, and always in benediction; that even the strokes of his hands are blessings, and among the chiefest we have ever received.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Blessed

  "Sermons".

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• Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost his belief in the existence of God said: "The whole horrible structure, based not on the love of God, but on the fear of hell, tumbled down like a house of cards."

  Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

  Uncles, School, House Of Cards

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• I know what God did for me. I know that He is my way out and my way in. He's my way out of all this havoc and my way into paradise. He suffered for me and for everybody listening. God loves us so much. He tried a lot of things to get our attention. He tried a lot of things to get us back to Him. So He said, "I'll tell you what. I'm going to make it real simple for you. I'm going to send my Son. He's going to take on all your iniquities and all your sins. He's gonna die in your place so you can have everlasting life. All you've got to do is accept that.

  Smokey Robinson

  Real, Son, Simple

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• He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Hate, Devil

  Joseph Goebbels (1987). “Michael: a novel”, Amok Pr

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• It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom or never feel in their hearts the desire for the love of God and other men, and who do not thirst for the pure waters of desire which are poured out in us by the strong, living God, are usually those who have drunk from other rivers or have dug for themselves broken cisterns.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Strong, Heart

  Thomas Merton (2002). “No Man Is an Island”, p.206, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish.  Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature

  Thomas Merton

  Love Is, Perfection, Our Love

  Thomas Merton (1960). “Spiritual Direction and Meditation”, p.85, Liturgical Press

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• The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Crosses, Length, Evidence

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• Do you want to know that your new life is real? Commit yourself to a local group of saved sinners. Try to love them. Don’t just do it for three weeks. Don’t just do it for six months. Do it for years. And I think you’ll find out, and others will, too, whether or not you love God. The truth will show itself

  Mark Dever

  Real, Thinking, Years

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• Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.

  John Stott

  Heart, Perfection, Christ

  John Stott, Alister E. McGrath (2006). “The Cross of Christ”, p.206, InterVarsity Press

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• At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve. On the cross divine mercy and justice were equally expressed and eternally reconciled. God's holy love was 'satisfied.'

  John Stott

  Order, Justice, Judgment

  John Stott, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (2009). “The Cross”, p.67, InterVarsity Press

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• When we look at the cross we see the justice, love, wisdom and power of God. It is not easy to decide which is the most luminously revealed, whether the justice of God in judging sin, or the love of God in bearing the judgment in our place, or the wisdom of God in perfectly combining the two, or the power of God in saving those who believe. For the cross is equally an act, and therefore a demonstration, of God’s justice, love, wisdom and power. The cross assures us that this God is the reality within, behind and beyond the universe.

  John Stott

  Believe, Reality, Justice Of God

  John Stott, Alister E. McGrath (2006). “The Cross of Christ”, p.274, InterVarsity Press

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• My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age. His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country.

  Betty Ford

  Country, Husband, Father

  "Former President Ford dies at 93", www.cnn.com. December 27, 2006.

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• In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes.That's me also.

  R. Kelly

  Sex, Mistake, Party

  "Man in the mirror" by Paul Flynn, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2004.

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• May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God who is the Father, Son and Spirit.

  Brennan Manning

  Children, Father, Son

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.17, NavPress

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• God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.

  Brennan Manning

  Love You, Should, Eager Beaver

  Brennan Manning, John Blase (2011). “All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir”, p.192, David C Cook

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• My friends are the beings through whom God loves me.

  Mark Nepo

  God Loves Me, My Friends

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.165, Conari Press

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• Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do not love Him.

  Meister Eckhart

  Long, Free Spirit, Contrary

  "Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages". Book by William Ralph Inge, 1904.

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• The theology of the hammer embraces wholeheartedly the idea that the love of God and love of man must be blended. The word and the deed must come together. One without the other is devoid of meaning … As the deed gets closer to the word, God gets closer to us. The results are always wonderful — and sometimes spectacular!

  Millard Fuller

  Men, Ideas, Together

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• I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that 'all that I am,' I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

  Saint Patrick

  Heart, Bishops, Tribes

  "Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus". Translated by John Skinner, www.ancienttexts.org.

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• The Savior’s words are simple, yet their meaning is profound and deeply significant. We are to love God and to love and care for our neighbors as ourselves. Imagine what good we can do in the world if we all join together, united as followers of Christ, anxiously and busily responding to the needs of others and serving those around us — our families, our friends, our neighbors, our fellow citizens.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Simple, Profound, Together

  "Be Anxiously Engaged" by M. Russell Ballard, www.lds.org. October 2012.

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• His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.

  Teresa of Avila

  Spring, Temptation, Saint

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• As you love God and serve Him, you will undoubtedly experience the greatest adventure life has to offer.

  Bill Bright

  Adventure, Offers, Greatest Adventure

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• It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Mind, Gains, Obedience

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• I am gay. I am proud. And God loves me without reservation.

  Mel White

  Gay, Proud, Reservations

  Mel White (2015). “STRANGER AT THE GATE”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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