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Love To Christ And God: Quotations from Burning Words

Saviour! teach me, day by day, Love's sweet lesson to obey; Sweeter lesson cannot be, Loving Him who first loved me. Charity is the very livery of Christ.— LATIMER

Love is a golden key to let in Christ, and a strong lock to keep out others.— THOMAS BROOKS

Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.— E. L. HERVEY

Christ is not valued at all unless He be valued above all.— ST. AUGUSTINE

The true measure of loving God is to love Him without measure.— ST. BERNARD

Between God and man, between the gospel and each soul, the interpreter is Love.— VINET

God is all love, and the more we are like Him the more we shall love; the trouble is not in the quantity but the quality of our love. If it were wholly pure, wholly unselfish, it could not be too deep or intense; for all true loving lifts us to a higher plane, bringing us nearer to God and the eternal goodness.— A. H. K

To be like Christ in His love is far more than to be like Him in His knowlege, if we were forced to choose between them; but they harmonize and strengthen each other; more knowledge will help us to love more; and more love help us to know more.— A. H. K

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."— JONATHAN EDWARDS

But how shall this love be demonstrated? After what method shall it be expressed? Not by secret musings alone; not by the chanting of religious sonnets alone; not by grateful remembrances of Him-at His table only-but by deeds of love towards those who in a real sense represent Him, because partakers of that nature, our common humanity, which He condescended to assume.— WILLIAM ADAMS

Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.— JONATHAN EDWARDS

True love goes ever straight forward, not in its own strength, but esteeming itself as nothing. Then indeed we are truly happy. The cross is no longer a cross when there is no self to suffer under it.— FENELON

A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart - this is what is needed.— A. J. GORDON

All true love to God is preceded in the heart by these two things - a sense of sin, and an assurance of pardon. There is no love possible - real, deep, genuine, worthy of being called love of God - which does not start with the belief of my own transgression, and with the thankful reception of forgiveness in Christ.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

The disciple whom Jesus loved leaned on His bosom. Dear friend, where are you?— ANNA SHIPTON,

Her heart was a passion-flower, bearing within it the crown of thorns and the cross of Christ,— JEREMY TAYLOR

Dear Saviour! we are Thine, By everlasting bands; Our hearts, our souls, we would resign Entirely to Thy hands.— DODDRIDGE

Love Christ, and then the eternity in the heart will not be a great aching void, but will be filled with the everlasting life which Christ gives and is.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

Give me a baptism of glowing love, Thy power and presence wheresoe'er I rove; And my last prayer, all other prayers above – Oh, give to me More of Thyself, Lord Jesus: more of Thee!— ANNA SHIPTON

Lord, thou knowest all things; Thou knowest that I love Thee!

Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning even its weakness into strength, and so, from the depths of transgression and the very gates of hell, raises men to God.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp, And Thy pierced feet I clasp ; Gracious Jesus, spurn me not; On me, with compassion fraught, Let Thy glances fall. From Thy cross of agony, My Beloved, look on me; Turn me wholly unto Thee ; "Be thou whole," say openly : "I forgive thee all."— ST. BERNARD

Christ is not sweet till sin be made bitter to us.— JOHN FLAVEL

Lovest thou me? This is the one test question of our religion; for he that loveth is born of God.— WILLIAM ADAMS

Jesus, Master, I am Thine; Keep me faithful, keep me near; Let Thy presence in me shine All my homeward way to cheer. Jesus, at Thy feet I fall, Oh, be Thou my All in All.— F. R. HAVERGAL

No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

For they the mind of Christ discern Who lean, like John, upon His breast.— J. G. WHITTIER

How shall we test our love? How shall the real be known From that which takes its form? Love "seeketh not her own."— MRS. M. F. BUTTS

None know how to prize the Saviour, but such as are zealous in pious works for others.— LADY HUNTINGDON

Earthly joy can take but a bat-like flight, always checked, always limited, in dusk and darkness. But the love of Christ breaks through the vaulting, and leads us up into the free sky above, expanding to the very throne of Jehovah, and drawing us still upward to the infinite heights of glory.— F. R. HAVERGAL

Fade, fade, each earthly joy; Jesus is mine! Break every earthly tie; Jesus is mine; Dark is the wilderness; Earth has no resting-place; Jesus alone can bless; Jesus is mine.— HORATIUS BONAR

Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it. without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.— FENELON

Love is the foundation of all obedience. Without it. morality degenerates into mere casuistry. Love is the foundation of all knowledge. Without it religion degenerates into a chattering about Moses and doctrines and theories; a thing that will neither kill nor make alive, that never gave life to a single soul or blessing to a single heart, and never put strength into any hand in the conflict and strife of daily life.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.— F. W. ROBERTSON

To love God, we must know Him as manifested in Christ, know Him as incarnated in human form, - know Him as revealing His holiness, His tenderness, His pity, His yearning love, and condescending grace, in the suffering, glorified Redeemer. Oh! make me Thine forever; And should I fainting be, Lord! let me never, never, Outlive my love to Thee !— GERHARDT

When a man is told that the whole of religion and morality is summed up in the two commandments, to love God, and to love our neighbor, he is ready to cry, like Charoba in Gebir, at the first sight of the sea, “Is this the mighty ocean? is this all?" Yes, all; but how small a part of it do your eyes survey! Only trust yourself to it; launch out upon it; sail abroad over it; you will find it has no end; it will carry you round the world.— GUESSES AT TRUTH

Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as the oak grows from the acorn, or the harvest from the scattered grain. It is not that love to Christ merits heaven; it does far better, it makes heaven. It is, as it were, the organ of sensation that takes note of heaven's blessedness.— A. H. BOYD

Nothing satisfies God but the voluntary sacrifice of love. The pain of Christ gave God no pleasure - only the love that was tested by pain - the love of perfect obedience.— F. W. ROBERTSON

How shall I do to love? Believe. How shall I do to believe? Love. M.— LEIGHTON,