Wise quotes about god

When we think of love in general, we often times tend to think of romantic love immediately. But have we ever think of God’s love first? God’s love is different from other kinds of love. It’s not all hearts and flowers or warm and fuzzy, it really goes beyond that. His love is so vast, deep, and wide. His love comforts us in times of loneliness and despair. It never fails and it always- always, forgive.

We may not fully explain or comprehend what God’s love is, but it is something that we need to experience in our lives. We should constantly remind ourselves how much He cares and treasures us no matter how imperfect we are. So here are inspirational quotes and verses from the Bible that talks about the love of God.

1. “God loves each of us as if there were only one of us” – Augustine

2. “…but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” – Romans 5:8

3. “There is no one who is insignificant in the purpose of God.” – Alistair Begg

4. “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” – John 15:13

5. “Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends.” – Revelation 3:20

6. “The shape of true love isn’t a diamond. It’s a cross.” – Alicia Bruxvoort

7. “Remain in me, and I will remain in you.” – John 15:4

8. “Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” – 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

9. “One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.” – A.B. Simpson

10. “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

11. “The very first step toward change is to believe that you can. You don’t have to stay the way you are because God is a God of change and transformation. He can bring change to your life and bring the best out of you.” – Brian Houston

12. “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

13. “The final words of the Savior were words of His human needs;
He hung on the cross to save others, the greatest commitment indeed.” – Greta Zwaan, Christ’s Journey

14. “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.” – Matthew 11:28

15. “God’s love for us is proclaimed by each sunrise.” – Anonymous

16. “God’s love for us is uncoerced and so freely given that it does not demand a response. But so freely is it given that it creates freedom in the recipient, so that our response is not one of obligation or duty, nor the returning of a favor, but uncoerced love.” ― Mark Galli, Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit

17. “When the Bible speaks of God’s love for us and the kind of love we are to have for him and for other people, the word is always apage, signifying a commitment to act.” – Rick Warren, God’s Power To Change Your Life

18. “God is love, and as pure love, He is always inclusive, and I believe that we should be, too.” – Mary Vasquez, Love Poems from God

19. “God is love. He loves us and He pursues us with that love. And when I experienced His love, I was able to share that love with others. I appreciate the love God has for me.” – Jeanette Duby, Bridge to Grace: Finding life and peace in the midst of death and chaos

20. “I tell you not to worry about everyday life. Look at the ravens. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for God feeds them. And you are far more valuable to him than any birds!” – Luke 12:22, 24

21. “God has been good to men. He gave His Only Son their souls to save.” – Edgar A Guest, America

22. “Even when we doubt, God believes in us and never gives up on us.” – Catherine Pulsifer

23. “God loves you. He wants you to succeed. He wants the best for you.” – Norman Vincent Peale

24. “Ask God to protect him and to protect your marriage. Ask for blessing and for mercy.” – Lisa Jacobson, 100 Ways to Love Your Husband: A Life-Long Journey of Learning to Love

25. “There’s no place too dark for God’s light to penetrate and no heart too difficult to be set aflame by His love.” – Sammy Tippit, The Approaching Darkness

26. “But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands.” – Exodus 20:6

27. “Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.” – C.S. Lewis

28. “I’m absolutely convinced that nothing – nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable – absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.” – Mary DeMuth, Live Uncaged: Find the Freedom You’ve Always Wanted

29. “To understand God’s love is to mirror it in the midst of a world full of hatred”
― Sunday Adelaja

30. “When God puts love and compassion in your heart toward someone, He’s offering you an opportunity to make a difference in that person’s life.” – Joel Osteen

31. “No matter what storm you face, you need to know that God loves you. He has not abandoned you.” – Franklin Graham

32. “I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.” – William P. Young

33. “Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.” – Tullian Tchividjian

34. “God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite.” – F. F. Bruce

35. “You can never escape God’s Grace because as you run from it, you run to it.” ― Gift Gugu Mona

36. “Life is too short, the world is too big, and God’s love it too great to live ordinary.” -Christine Caine

37. “You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.” – Meister Eckhart

38. “God’s Love for you through Christ Jesus is more than Valentine’s card or gift.” ― Chris Chacko

39. “God waits for you to communicate with Him. You have instant, direct access to God. God loves mankind so much, and in a very special sense His children, that He has made Himself available to you at all times.” – Wesley L. Duewel

40. “God carries your picture in His wallet.” – Tony Campolo

41. “God’s love is like an ocean. You can see its beginning, but not its end.” – Rick Warren

42. “I have cared for you since you were born. Yes, I carried you before you were born. I will be your God throughout your lifetime—until your hair is white with age.” – Isaiah 46: 3, 4

43. “We obey God’s Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.” ― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey

44. “God loves us too much to indulge our every whim.” – Max Lucado

45. “No matter what storm you face, you need to know that God loves you. He has not abandoned you.” – Franklin Graham

46. “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

47. “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 8:37-39

48. “If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him. It will always be right and best. When He gives you a directive, you are not just to observe it, discuss it, or debate it. You are to obey it.” – Henry Blackaby

49. “Both love and God are misunderstood, as they are one and the same.” – Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out

50. “God is completely sovereign. God is infinite in wisdom. God is perfect in love. God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom, He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty, He has the power to bring it about.” – Jerry Bridges

51. “God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’” – Billy Graham

52. “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” – Joshua 1:9

53. “With God, you are stronger than your struggles and more fierce than your fears. God provides comfort and strength to those who trust in Him. Be encouraged, keep standing, and know that everything’s going to be alright.” ― Germany Kent

54. “Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.” – Lawrence Welk

55. “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace, you have been saved.” – Ephesians 2:4-5

56. “We love because He first loved us.” – 1 John 4:19

57. “Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name; you are mine.” – Isaiah 43:1

58. “God is love. He didn’t need us. But he wanted us. And that is the most amazing thing. ” – Rick Warren

59. “The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.” – Julian of Norwich

60. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” – John 3:16 New International Version (NIV)

God’s love is eternal and it always prevails, it is unconditional. No amount of earthly love can surpass His love for us. He sacrificed His only begotten Son’s life for our salvation. So whenever you feel so unworthy of your life, think about what Jesus did for you on the cross. He loves you and will never forsake you.

Let these quotes inspire you in your journey through this life. What’s your favorite quote? Try writing it down or place it on your wall to remind yourself of how you are really important to God. Share this also to someone who needs this encouragement and reminder of God’s love.

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Some of the most inspirational quotes and Bible verses are those talking about the love of God.  This attribute of God is one that makes me smile. What comfort we can find in a God that loves us despite of ourselves. God loves you and He wants you to know this! I know you came to this article looking for some great quotes and verses so I am going to let them do the rest of the talking.

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      God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite.

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      Consider what you owe to His immutability. Though you have changed a thousand times, He has not changed once.

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      God waits for you to communicate with Him. You have instant, direct access to God. God loves mankind so much, and in a very special sense His children, that He has made Himself available to you at all times.

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      God loves us too much to indulge our every whim.

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      One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as “those evil people” or “those poor people who need our help.” Nor must we search for signs of “loveworthiness.” Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.

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

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

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      If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him. It will always be right and best. When He gives you a directive, you are not just to observe it, discuss it, or debate it. You are to obey it.

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

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      but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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      The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

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      God is completely sovereign. God is infinite in wisdom. God is perfect in love. God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.

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      God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’

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      The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

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      But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved.

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      For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

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      No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I hope one or more of these quotes and verses on God’s love touched you enough to write it down. Keep it in your purse or wallet, put it somewhere at your work, or just find a way to remember God’s love for you as you move forward in your life. Lets find a way to share God’s love with the world and a good start will be sharing some of these quotes!

Friedrich Nietzsche's
~ God is dead ~ quote

 

The Parable of the Madman

Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and cried incessantly: "I am looking for God! I am looking for God!"
As many of those who did not believe in God were standing together there, he excited considerable laughter. Have you lost him, then? said one. Did he lose his way like a child? said another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? or emigrated? Thus they shouted and laughed. The madman sprang into their midst and pierced them with his glances.

"Where has God gone?" he cried. "I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. We are his murderers. But how have we done this? How were we able to drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What did we do when we unchained the earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving now? Away from all suns? Are we not perpetually falling? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there any up or down left? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is it not more and more night coming on all the time? Must not lanterns be lit in the morning? Do we not hear anything yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? Do we not smell anything yet of God's decomposition? Gods too decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives. Who will wipe this blood off us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become gods simply to be worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whosoever shall be born after us - for the sake of this deed he shall be part of a higher history than all history hitherto."

Here the madman fell silent and again regarded his listeners; and they too were silent and stared at him in astonishment. At last he threw his lantern to the ground, and it broke and went out. "I have come too early," he said then; "my time has not come yet. The tremendous event is still on its way, still travelling - it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they can be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves."

It has been further related that on that same day the madman entered divers churches and there sang a requiem. Led out and quietened, he is said to have retorted each time: "what are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchres of God?"

 

"I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment..."

Friedrich Nietzsche ~ Thus spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche ~ Thus spoke Zarathustra

 

 

A selection of "Central Spiritual Insights" gleaned from Christian sources

A Disdain for Materialism

Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Jesus

A Distrust of Intellect

So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.

St. Paul

Spiritual Insights are possible!

What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

St. Paul

Charity

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

St. John

Purity of Heart

Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, "children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation." Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life...

St. Paul

Humility

Nor are you to be called 'teacher,' for you have one Teacher, the Christ. The greatest among you will be your servant. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Jesus

Meekness

Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

St. James

"Central Spiritual Insights" drawn from "non-Christian" Inter-Faith sources

A Disdain for Materialism

Chuang Tzu put on cotton clothes with patches in them, and arranging his girdle and tying on his shoes, (i.e. to keep them from falling off), went to see the prince of Wei.
"How miserable you look, Sir!" Cried the prince. "It is poverty, not misery," replied Chuang Tzu. "A man who has TAO cannot be miserable. Ragged clothes and old boots make poverty, not misery."

Chuang Tzu - (Taoism)

A Distrust of Intellect

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment; Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

Rumi - (Sufism ~ a notably mystical, minority, tradition associable with both Sunni and Shia Islam)

Spiritual Insights are possible!

The intelligence of the mean man does not rise beyond bribes and letters of recommendation. His mind is beclouded with trivialities. Yet he would penetrate the mystery of TAO and of creation, and rise to participation in the ONE. The result is that he is confounded by time and space; and that trammelled by objective existences, that he fails apprehension of that age before anything was. But the perfect man, - he carries his mind back to the period before the beginning. Content to rest in the oblivion of nowhere, passing away like flowing water, he is merged in the clear depths of the infinite.

Chuang Tzu - (Taoism)

Charity

He that does everything for Me, whose supreme object I am, who worships Me, being free from attachment and without hatred to any creature, this man, Arjuna!, comes to Me.

Bhagavad Gita ~ (Hinduism) ~ also known as ~ (Vedanta).

And my soul is absorbed
In the Love of My Lord.
Bow humbly to the saint
That is a pious act.
Bow to the ground before him
That is devotion, indeed.

The faithless know not,
The joy of the love of the Lord;

From Sohila-Arti ~ a bed-time prayer
This section of which is attributed to Guru Ram Das - (Sikhism)

Purity of Heart

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

Solomon - (Judaism)

Humility

Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.

Ansari of Herat - (Islam)

Meekness

Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth! Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Dhammapada - (Buddhism)

"Would he had been less full of borrowed knowledge! Then he would have accepted inspired knowledge from his father. When, with inspiration at hand, you seek book-learning, your heart, as if inspired, loads you with reproach. Traditional knowledge, when inspiration is available, is like making ablutions in sand when water is near. Make yourself ignorant, be submissive, and then you will obtain release from your ignorance."
Rumi - (Sufism / Islam)

Rumi lived 1207 - 1273, (by the western calendar).
A BBC "Culture" web page of April, 2014 has said of him:-

The ecstatic poems of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi master born 807 years ago in 1207, have sold millions of copies in recent years, making him the most popular poet in the US. Globally, his fans are legion.

Vivekananda, (the name-in-religion Vivekananda translates as - The Bliss of Discerning Wisdom), was a Vedic scholar and Hindu sage who made an appearance at the Parliament of World Religions that convened in Chicago in 1893 and was generally recognised as having made a singularly important contribution to the proceedings:-


"When there is conflict between the heart and the brain, let the heart be followed, because intellect has only one state, reason, and within that intellect works, and cannot get beyond. It is the heart which takes one to the highest plane, which intellect can never reach; it goes beyond the intellect, and reaches what is called inspiration. Intellect can never become inspired; only the heart when it is enlightened, becomes inspired. An intellectual, heartless man can never become an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater instrument than intellect can give you, the instrument of inspiration. Just as the intellect is the instrument of knowledge, so is the heart the instrument of inspiration."

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"In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded north, south, east, west, to the centre of every province of the empire, making each market-town of Persia, Spain, and Britain pervious to the soldiers of the capital: so out of the human heart go, as it were, highways to the heart of every object in nature, to reduce it under the dominion of man. A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world. His faculties refer to natures out of him, and predict the world he is to inhabit, as the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists, or the wings of an eagle in the egg presuppose air. He cannot live without a world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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