Quotes on Love

Christian quotes on Love — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa

I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
Henri Nouwen

It wasn't the nails that held Jesus to the cross. It was love.
Max Lucado

To love a person means to see them as God meant them to be.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

I ask myself: what does hell mean? I maintain: it is the inability to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

A drop of love is worth more than an ocean of reason.
Blaise Pascal

Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.
Craig Groeschel

The world consists of nothing but opportunities for love.
Søren Kierkegaard

The Father’s love does not force itself on the beloved.
Henri Nouwen

We cannot do great things on this earth, only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa

O Lord, make me an instrument of your peace! Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light, and where there is sadness, joy.
Francis of Assisi

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.

In essential unity; in nonessentials liberty; in all this charity.
Rupertus Meldenius

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.
Thomas Merton

To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
Tim Keller

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
Tim Keller

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. You are as much alone with Him as if you were the only being He had ever created.
C.S. Lewis

The only important thing in life are the traces of love we leave behind when we go.
Albert Schweitzer

God’s love does not seek what is lovable, but creates it.
Martin Luther

When you rise to the love of God, you love all people, not because you like them, not because their ways please you, but because God loves them.
Martin Luther King Jr.

At first I thought I had to convert. Meanwhile I have learned that my task is to love. And love converts whomever it wills.
Mother Teresa

I never worry about crowds, only about one person. If I looked at the crowds, I would never begin.
Mother Teresa

God made us to love people and use things. Our problem is that we love things and use people.
Unknown

The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay upon the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to Him is not to believe that He loves you.
John Owen

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

You called, You cried, You shattered my deafness, You sparkled, You blazed, You drove away my blindness, You shed Your fragrance, and I drew in my breath, and I pant for You.
Augustine of Hippo

God loves humanity. God loves the world. Not an ideal human being, but the human being as he is; not an ideal world, but the real world.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.
John Stott

If we are looking for a definition of love, we should not look in a dictionary, but at Calvary.
John Stott

Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.
C.S. Lewis

Late have I loved you, beauty so ancient and so new.
Augustine of Hippo

To love is to be vulnerable.
C.S. Lewis

The worst hunger can be the hunger to be noticed and loved.
Mother Teresa

There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love.
Craig Groeschel

God does not love us if we change, God loves us so that we can change.
Richard Rohr

The bells sound, they sound quite differently than usual, when one knows of a dead person whom one loves.
Martin Luther

For this reason, because they are loved, sinners are fair; but they are not loved because they are fair.
Martin Luther

A good sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace. Loving somebody is grace.
Frederick Buechner

God's love isn't based on me. It's simply placed on me.
Lysa TerKeurst

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Mother Teresa, Henri Nouwen, Max Lucado, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Blaise Pascal, Craig Groeschel, Søren Kierkegaard, Francis of Assisi, Martin Luther King Jr., Rupertus Meldenius, Thomas Merton, Tim Keller

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