Love For God Quotes

“We know God by cultivating a relationship, not by understanding a concept.

The relation constitutes the very subjectivity of of our existence. We participate in existence consciously and rationally, with subjective self-knowledge and identity, because the erotic drive of our nature is transformed into a personal relation when there arises in the space of the Other the first signifier of desire: the maternal presence. The subject is born with love's first leap of joy.”
― Christos Yannaras, Variations on the Song of Songs

“When God wins your heart, He has won it forever.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“After all, how could I be a person if Ultimate Reality were impersonal?”
― David Steindl-Rast, Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed

“Religion requires action, labour, diligence; for it does not consist in airy, empty notions and speculations of the head but in the exercise of the mind and heart. Habits must be exerted; grace, improved. Heaven (that is, all uphill) must be strived for and gotten, as it were, by force and victory.”
― John Fox, Time and the End of Time: Discourses on Redeeming the Time and Considering Our Latter End

“And when the day closes, I shall know I have done my part.

To every soul, who feels that there's a bunch of dreams left unrealised, remember that as long as the Life remains, the possibility to dream remains. Remember that sometimes some dreams that we paint in our hearts are not meant to grow us in our journey of Life and then while we walk along the path, even the detours and broken dreams pave way to a whole lot of waking dreams that only the heart of gratitude can see and feel. I have seen and felt, that sometimes some souls have to go through a lot of trials and tribulations, lessons and sufferings, and even then they never fail to wear kindness and grace simply because they know that what happens around them should not intrude upon what is inside their heart. To know that we are here for a purpose and to not live idly, to know that the purpose is as simple as to stay kind and open to every possibility is as beautiful as the sky who knows no matter how dark the night is the stars would always lit her face.

In a world where everything comes at a price, if you're choosing to stay kind, if you're choosing to value your dignity and your integrity, if your choosing to understand and embrace the smile of Solitude, if you're choosing to employ your faculties to understand the real questions of Life, then you're alive, much more alive than your human dreams could have made you feel. Because no matter what, when sunset hits the night, and the day comes to a close you know you've done your part, you know you have embraced one more day with gratitude and grace, with a formidable zeal for Life and an invincible spirit of human understanding that stands firm pillared with Hope and Faith. And then no matter how many voices shrill your mind, the echo of your soul would pierce through your heart and enlighten every inch of your mind, body and soul, and you would know how proud the Universe must be to see the faithfulness, the strength and resilience in your soul, the very mould that was shaped in the fire of the Stardust that shines upon the sky, sometimes becoming a beacon to others while sometimes lying beautifully hidden but always there, always alive.

And so each time, I look at the sky with a bunch of stars, I know I am alive, burning with all that Life is made up of. And someday when the day closes for another dawn altogether, I shall know that I have done my part, pretty well.”
― Debatrayee Banerjee

“Love for God must precede service for God. Labor for God must be the overflow of love for God. Whenever we reverse the order, all of our ministry, including our work for God, become a dutiful task. The order in the Great Commandment is love for God before labor for God, allegiance to God before an assignment from God, intimacy with God before service for God.”
― Benjamin Sawatsky, Intimacy with God: Drawing Ever Closer to the Almighty

“To the objection that Christian love is extended to all people but friendship involves mutuality, Aquinas says that when we love a friend, we love everything about that friend. Thus our love will want to expand to include the friends of our friend, even if those friends have no other connection to us. 'When a man has friendship for a certain person, for his sake he loves all belonging to him, be they children, servants, or connected with him in any way. Indeed, so much do we love our friends, that for their sake we love all who belong to them, even if they hurt or hate us.' So when we love God, we also love those whom God loves. Each human being is, potentially, a friend of God. So whenever one human being, a friend of God, is loving God, that love is naturally extended to all the other friends of God--that is, to all other people insofar as they are also friends or potential friends of God. This is why we love our enemies: they too belong to God in that God's love extends to his enemies also.”
― Victor Lee Austin, Friendship: The Heart of Being Human

“Man is the expression
of God, and God is the reality of man.
Real man and God are inseparable.
"This Atman is not to be realized by the intellect, nor by words, nor by hearing from many sources; but by him by whom this Atman is beloved, by him alone is the Atman realized."
The thing necessary for us is to feel intense love in our hearts for this Atman, or God; otherwise He is not attainable. There is no other way that man can reach unto God, except through love — love always unites. This love for God comes unto those blessed beings who are pure in heart, from whom all attachment for unreal things, all selfish desires have vanished. This purity of heart and love for God are the sum and substance of all religious teachings”
― Swami Paramananda, Vedanta In Practice

“Spend every moment in "Hope" and "Love" for God for he has risen and brought us courage.”
― Phil Mitchell, A Bright New Morning: An American Story

“There is no love for God without love for man”
― Sunday Adelaja

“My love for You breaks all barriers,
It refuses to follow any norms;
It is blind, sees only You and You,
Though You may appear in different forms!”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra

“By chanting the Name Divine, the mind is purified, and the yearning for God surfaces.”
― Dada J. P. Vaswani

“Fill your heart with love — love of God,fellow-men, birds and animals, nature and yourself.”
― Dada J. P. Vaswani

“People want to hate each other for religion but not love each other for God.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“I take back my words and won’t ask you for anything, for I know that you will do the best.”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra, the red diary

“Let your heart be filled with love for your God, yourself, and others. A heart filled with love is a heart full of life.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Dear Daughter: Short and Sweet Messages for a Queen

“They say "You don't Fear God!"
We say "We Love God!”
― Aiyaz Uddin, The Inward Journey

“Obedience to Jesus' commandments is the litmus test of our Genuine love for Him”
― Prasanth Jonathan

“যে কোনও ভালবাসাই শেষ পর্যন্ত স্বার্থের ওপর ভিত্তি করেই দাঁড়িয়ে থাকে-মাও যে শিশুকে ভালবাসেন, তা ওই ভালবাসার পরিবর্তে বাৎসল্যের রসঘন তৃপ্তিদায়ক অনুভূতি হয় বলেই। তবু নিছক বৈষয়িক স্বার্থের চেয়ে কি তা ভাল নয়? কোন না কোন আসক্তি যদি জীবনে থাকতেই হয়, তাহলে ঈশ্বরের নিষ্কাম আসক্তি থাকুক।”
― Taradas Bandyopadhyay, তারানাথ তান্ত্রিক সমগ্র