Charles Spurgeon Quotes

I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God's love for them in Christ.

The love of Christ is not a pretend love. It is not a greeting-card love. It is not the kind of love that is praised in popular music and movies.

Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

Honesty is the door to finding a love that brings an identity found only in Christ.

We do not truly know what love is unless we know Christ.

If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.

There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.

Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.

To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

The idea of Christ's love for us all is inspiring to me.

I see how loving my parents are toward each other, toward my family and toward me. And that's just a glimpse of Jesus' love for us.

We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.

Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

For us Christians, love of neighbour springs from love of God; and it is its most limpid expression. Here one tries to love one's neighbour, but also to allow oneself to be loved by one's neighbour. These two attitudes go together, one cannot be exercised without the other. Printed on the letterhead of the Missionaries of Charity are these words of Jesus: "as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me". Loving God in our brethren and loving our brethren in God.

On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. Christian Love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

To understand the nature of love — that is to be a Christian!

What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return

The love of God is not something vague or generic; the love of God has a name and a face: Jesus Christ.

Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship.