Elizabeth George Quotes

Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.

I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all.

Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!

Loving people is the highest level of spiritual warfare that we could ever do

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.

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.

Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

Stop looking for peace. Give yourselves where you are. Stop looking at yourselves, look instead at your brothers and sisters in need. Ask how you can better love your brothers and sisters. Then you will find peace.

Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all about. People can't help but want to be near them. They help them; they work with them. That's what love is all about. It starts with your heart and radiates out.

I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.

Loving your neighbour as much as yourself is practically bloody impossible? You might as well have a commandment that states,'Thou shalt fly'.

We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.

I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.

The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable.