46 Inspirational Quotes from God About Love

"God's love is like an ocean. You can see its beginning, but not its end."

- Rick Warren

"The shape of true love isn't a diamond. It's a cross."

- Alicia Bruxvoort

"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

- Saint Augustine

"Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not."

- C.S. Lewis

"When you know how much God is in love with you, then you can only live your life radiating that love."

- Mother Teresa

"God and love are synonymous. Love is not an attribute of God, it is God; whatever God is, love is."

- Oswald Chambers

"Nothing can separate you from God's love absolutely nothing. God is enough for time, God is enough for eternity. God is enough!"

- Hannah Whitall Smith

"God is love. He didn't need us. But he wanted us. And that is the most amazing thing."

- Rick Warren

"We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground."

- Brennan Manning

"Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"We are loved beyond measure by a Father who knows us by name."

- Jeffrey R. Holland

"The question is not 'How am I to find God?' but 'How am I to let myself be found by him?' The question is not 'How am I to know God?' but 'How am I to let myself be known by God?' And, finally, the question is not 'How am I to love God?' but 'How am I to let myself be loved by God?' God is looking into the distance for me, trying to find me, and longing to bring me home."

- Henri J.M. Nouwen

"God loves you. He wants you to succeed. He wants the best for you."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"No matter what storm you face, you need to know that God loves you. He has not abandoned you."

- Franklin Graham

"God carries your picture in His wallet."

- Tonie Campbell

"I was good enough, imperfect as I am. I had the love that completed me, the love that never fails, the truest love of all. God's love, a love that never goes away."

- Andie MacDowell

"God's unfailing love for us is an objective fact affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. It is true whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God's love, nor does our faith create it. It originates in the very nature of God, who is love, and it flows to us through our union with His beloved Son."

- Jerry Bridges

"By the cross we know the gravity of sin and the greatness of God's love toward us."

- John Chrysostom

"Saving us is the greatest and most concrete demonstration of God's love, the definitive display of His grace throughout time and eternity."

- David Jeremiah

"Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us."

- Tullian Tchividjian

"He loves us in our imperfections, and He loves us so much that He calls us to become more than we ever thought possible."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion."

- Brennan Manning

"God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him."

- C. S. Lewis

"Life is too short, the world is too big, and God's love it too great to live ordinary."

- Christine Caine

"The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness."

- Emanuel Swedenborg

"Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea."

- Samuel Rutherford

"When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love."

- Charles Spurgeon

"It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are."

- Stormie Omartian

"The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love."

- Julian of Norwich

"But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God's love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin to be sincere. His sincerity is based on confidence, not in his own illusions about himself, but in the endless, unfailing mercy of God."

- Thomas Merton

"Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: you become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?"

- Philip Yancey

"God loves us as we are, but He also loves us too much to leave us this way."

- Bradley R. Wilcox

"If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer."

- Frederick Buechner

"Here's the paradox. We can fully embrace God's love only when we recognize how completely unworthy of it we are."

- Ann Tatlock

"Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. […] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29)."

- Peter Kreeft

"The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, 'Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody.' ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the 'Beloved.' Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence."

- Henri J.M. Nouwen

"The nature of God's love is unchangeable. Ours alternates all to readily. If it is our habit to love God with our own affection we shall turn cold towards Him whenever we are unhappy."

- Watchman Nee

"Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof."

- Richard Sibbes

"When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand."

- C.S. Lewis

"The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands."

- Martin Luther

"Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God."

- Guru Nanak

"God loves us too much to indulge our every whim."

- Max Lucado

"To ask that God's love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God."

- C.S. Lewis

"One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them."

- John Wesley

"If we deny the grief its right in our lives, then we must question the love for which the grief is supposedly rooted. God's grief is founded in His love for Himself and His love for us. Looking at God as our model is healthy. Facing the pain means honoring those with whom our love is rooted."

- W. Scott Lineberry