Top 1200 Loving God Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.

Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free choice begotten in the Spirit by means of the self-loving and independent power dwelling naturally in him.

God is a loving god.

Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.

Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.

What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power of God not praised. The truth of God not sought. The wisdom of God not esteemed. The beauty of God not treasured. The goodness of God not savored. The faithfulness of God not trusted. The commandments of God not obeyed. The justice of God not respected. The wrath of God not feared. The grace of God not cherished. The presence of God not prized. The person of God not loved. That is sin.

The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.

I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.

As to those in whom the will of God is not inwardly accomplished,-because there is no inward life in them, for they are altogether outward,-upon them the will of God is wrought as alone it can be; appearing at first sight bitter and ungracious, though in reality merciful and loving in the highest degree. To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

I think God gives us all that in his Word because he's a loving Father.

In our universe there is God and there are people and things. We were made so that we should worship God, love people and use things. However if we worship ourselves, we will ignore God, start loving things and begin to use people.

There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.

Fame is a by-product. It's not a goal. What matters is loving your work and loving what you do

Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.

What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present. ...Conversely, it is not only possible but necessary for a loving person to avoid acting on feelings of love.

One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his every word. And inspired by her eagerness to learn more about her God whom she loved so dearly, he said to the people: It is better to be this unlearned woman, loving God with all her heart, than the most learned theologian lacking love.

A quiet morning with a loving God puts the events of the upcoming day into proper perspective.

It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too long separated the head from the heart, and we are the lesser for it. We love God with the mind and we love God with the heart. In reality, we are descending with the mind into the heart and there standing before God in ceaseless wonder and endless praise. As the mind and the heart work in concert, a kind of loving rationality pervades all we say and do. This brings unity to us and glory to God.

Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?

All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.

I just think that the God I serve is compassionate and loving and is forgiving.

The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.

Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God.

God’s plan for you, whether you’re married, single, or about to be married, unless He gives you the gift of singleness, is to be in a warm, loving marriage relationship, characterized by open communication, a lot of hard work, deep commitment, setting boundaries, and doing it God’s way.

In Ezekiel, chapter 33, verse 11, it says, that 'God has no pleasure in the person that's living in sin.' He's a loving God and he wants people to turn away from what they're living in and he'll give them life. That's the message I'm trying to share, even though it comes across as harsh.

Although there are many plans in a loving heart,but only God’s will is sufficiently established.

Loving him didn't fix anything. Loving him didn't change anything. Loving him simply made everything else bearable.

Creativity means loving whatsoever you do - enjoying, celebrating it, as a gift of God!

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

I am definitely questioning the atonement and trying to discover how we can see it in a different way. We've got this image of God who needs some sort of flesh, some sort of blood, that needs some sort of vengeance to pay for sin. My experience of a loving God who's asked me to love my enemies - this isn't a God that demands something before you are accepted. I think Jesus died because Jesus was inclusive. God is inclusive. I think that the idea of God somehow being separated from us was more man's idea.

Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence.

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

God loves us. May we discover the beauty of loving and being loved.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.

People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with.

We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

It is quite impossible to worship God without loving Him.

Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.

God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.

Our work for God is to flow from loving God; thus, we work with Him instead of for Him.

The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only the really loving woman, the woman who is happier in giving than in taking, who is firmly rooted in her own existence, can be a loving mother when the child is in the process of separation.

Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing in God's judgment, hating what He hates, loving what He loves, and measuring everything in this world by the standard of His Word.

Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push for justice on the other hand might be at the center of the Gospel but it also attacks the balance of power in the society. Since the rich always exploit the poor, to give the poor power, dignity and humanity makes them less pliable, less cooperative.

Satan is ever seeking to inject that poison into our hearts to distrust God's goodness - especially in connection with his commandments. That is what really lies behind all evil, lusting and disobedience. A discontent with our position and portion, a craving from something which God has wisely held from us. Reject any suggestion that God is unduly severe with you. Resist with the utmost abhorrence anything that causes you to doubt God's love and his loving-kindness toward you. Allow nothing to make you question the Father's love for his child.

God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and He is still loving on His people.

Loving ourselves means loving our community. When we are capable of loving ourselves, nourishing ourselves properly, not intoxicating ourselves, we are already protecting and nourishing society.

But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!

It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.

It is impossible to love God without loving our neighbor.

It is only by yielding to God that we can begin to realize His will for us. And if we truly trust God, why not yield to His loving omniscience? After all, He knows us and our possibilities much better than do we.

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

The true face of religion belongs to the re-enchantment of our injured civilization; faith is a way of filling all the spiritual spaces in our damaged world with the vision of a loving God, the God described in the Qur'an as al-Rahman al-Rahim.

It's hard to stop loving someone on cue, especially when he's still so kind and loving toward you.