40 amazing quotes to ignite your heart
Love is awesome because God is Love. We hope these truths and reflections on love help you love bigger, live deeper, and extend astonishing grace today to those around you. Whether you are single, coupled, widowed, divorced, or somewhere in between remember: the desire for love and to be loved exists because God first loved us. It’s a divine gift. So handle the hearts around you with care.
“Love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind … and love your neighbor as yourself.” ~Jesus Christ, Matt. 22:37-39 (paraphrased)
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” ~Jimi Hendrix
“To love another person is to see the face of God.” ~Victor Hugo (Les Miserables)
“The human heart tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.” ~Maya Angelou (Letter to My Daughter)
“Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.” ~Augustine of Hippo
“Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.” ~Leo Tolstoy
“The function of freedom is to free someone else.” ~Toni Morrison
“People should fall in love with their eyes closed.” ~Andy Warhol
“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” ~Vincent van Gogh
“At the end of the day people won’t remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.” ~Maya Angelou
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” ~ Helen Keller
“Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” ~1 Cor. 2:9
“We weren’t meant to be somebody–we were meant to know Somebody.” ~John Piper
“Love extravagantly.” ~1 Cor. 13:13“In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.” ~Augustine of Hippo
“Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don’t make mistakes.” ~Max Lucado
“Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it- because it does.” ~ 1 Cor. 14:1, The Message
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” ~ Donald Miller
“It’s not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matter.” ~Rick Warren
“A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.” ~Anne Lamott (Joe Jones)
“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.” ~Brennan Manning
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. “Pooh?” he whispered.
“Yes, Piglet?”
“Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s hand.
“I just wanted to be sure of you.” ~A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)“Love is not a feeling, it’s an ability.” ~Dan in Real Life, the film
“Love is never wrong and so it never dies.” ~The Lion King 2, the film
“Live like you were dying, Love because you are.” ~Mark Green
“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.” ~Mitch Albom
“Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.” ~Leo Buscaglia
“There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert
“Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” ~Richard Bach
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.” ~Max Lucado
“Hate the sin, love the sinner.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
“Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.” ~ A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)
“Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.” ~Melissa Marr
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” ~Willa Cather
“Love is not a because, it’s a no matter what.” ~Jodi Picoult (Second Glance)
“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.” ~Joni Eareckson Tada (The God I Love)
“Love is a choice.” ~Gary Chapman
“No hatred.” ~ Corrie ten Boom (The Hiding Place)
Jesus said in Matthew 6:33 to “seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” Notice the key in this verse: seek first the Kingdom. In other words, don’t seek the blessing, seek the One who blesses. Don’t be consumed by things. Don’t chase after money, fame, fortune or a bigger “this or that.” Instead, chase after God! If you will seek Him first, then all of His blessings will be added unto you. Not a few things. Not a half a dozen things. God is a God of abundance, and He says “ALL things.” In other words, when you keep Him first place, you won’t be able to contain all the good things that He will bring across your path! He’ll fill you to overflowing. He’ll give you things that money can’t buy. You can work 24/7, but you can’t buy health. You can’t buy strength. You can’t buy a good night’s rest. Seek first the Kingdom, and God will reward you!
That word “seek” is a strong word. One definition says “to require as a vital necessity.” That means we should consider spending time with God as vital to living a victorious life. That means no matter how we feel when we wake up, no matter how tired we are on Sunday morning, we are going to get up and honor God as if our lives depend on it!
Today, make sure things in life are in the right order—seek first God’s Kingdom. Seek His way of doing things. Honor Him at the start of your day and make it a part of your routine. As you do, you’ll see His reward on your life, and you’ll see all of His blessings added unto you!
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God’s been teaching me this a lot lately, too. Sometimes we can’t be so elusive and play “hard to get” with the people in our lives. Just do it. Just say it. Just be it.
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Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ.
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer (via alightforrevelation)
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God created us in joy and created us for joy, and in the long run not all the darkness there in the world and in ourselves can separate us finally from that joy, because whatever else it means to say that God created us in his image, I think it means that even when we cannot believe in him, even when we feel most spiritually bankrupt and deserted by him, his mark is deep within us. We have God’s joy in our blood.
—Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark (via invisibleforeigner)
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