80 Christian Quotes About Love
Christian love is not just a feeling or an emotion but an active and sacrificial commitment to seek the well-being of others. It is a love that goes beyond what is comfortable or convenient, and it is willing to give up personal interests for the sake of others.
In this post, we will be sharing with you some of the top Christian quotes about love. We hope that through these quotes, you will be able to see how important love is in the Christian faith and be inspired to show love to others.
See also: Powerful Prayers About Love.
What Is Love Bible Quotes
- “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4-5
- “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” – 1 Peter 4:8
- “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.” – 1 John 4:7
- “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” – 1 Corinthians 13:13
- “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.” – 1 John 3:16
- “Let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.” – 1 John 3:18
- “No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.” – 1 John 4:12
- “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.” – Ephesians 4:2
- “Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.” – Romans 12:9
- “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” – John 13:34
Christian Quotes About Love Of God
Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose — to be in relationship to God, who is there.
Francis Schaeffer
God hates loneliness, and community is God’s answer to loneliness. When we walk alongside other people, we find a community where we learn how to love.
Rick Warren
God’s love is the most powerful love there is. It is a bond that draws us to God and motivates us to serve Him successfully.
Regina Clarinda, Encounter With Jesus Christ
Love is the joy we get from God when we put His benefit and the benefit of another person before our own.
Regina Clarinda, Encounter With Jesus Christ
One of the best ways to demonstrate God’s love is to listen to people.
Bruce Larsen
God’s authority is demonstrated by His love, which He proved by His suffering upon the cruel cross of Calvary.
Shannon Scott, Authority
The art of love is God at work through you.
Wilferd A. Peterson, The Art of Living Treasure Chest
Always remember that under the New Covenant God loves us as much as He loves Jesus for we are in Him.
Gloria Coleman, Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation
Others have promised and failed. But God has promised and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love.
Max Lucado from A Love Worth Giving
Many of the Christians whose love will grow cold will end up loving other things before God.
Michael Caputo, How to Prevent Your Love From becoming Cold
Attitudes and actions which really show the love of Christ help to overcome resistance to God’s Good News.
Brian Johnston, Healthy Churches – God’s Bible Blueprint For Growth
God is not keeping score with our bank accounts, our trophies, or what people are saying about us. The only thing that matters is how we spend our love.
Camille Alice, 2010: A Book of Grace-Filled Days
If you once saw yourself as unlovable, know that you are loved. God loved you so much, He sent his Son so that you would be saved (John 3:16).
Grant Dean, Practical Step to an Awesome Life through changing your words
When we are in touch with God’s joy and peace in us, then we become whole and holy persons. Like living torches we radiate the light and heat of God’s compassionate love.
Mark Yaconelli
The first purpose of your life is to be loved by God! Yes, it is important to serve him, obey, and trust him, but your first purpose is to love him.
Rick Warren
God’s love supply is never empty.
Max Lucado – Come Thirsty
The more we love, the more love we have to offer. So it is with God’s love for us. It is inexhaustible.
Mary C. Neal, MD, To Heaven and Back
As believers in Christ, we are part of Him-God the Father decided before the foundation of the world that anyone who loved Christ would be loved and accepted by Him.
Joyce Meyers – Knowing GOD Intimately
Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God’s love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes.
Billy Graham, The Heaven Answer Book
There is nothing you can do that will make God stop loving you. You could try, but you simply can’t do it — because his love for you is based upon his character and not on anything you do or say or feel.
Rick Warren
See also: Ways To Love Yourself God’s Way
Christian Quotes About Love and Forgiveness
Love yourself just as you want other people to love you . . . . . Forgive yourself for past mistakes and allow yourself to experience new opportunities.
Ryan Cooper, Insecurity
Forgiveness is for you – not the other person. It’s something you do inside yourself that you feel in your body and heart that releases you from your past and frees you to live life fully.
Barbara J Hunt, Forgiveness Made Easy
Don’t ever underestimate the power of forgiveness. I’ve seen it free people. I’ve seen it lift burdens that had weighed them down and kept them from moving on.
Buffy Andrews, A Grandmother’s Legacy
A life of purpose is a life of service, giving to others with total and unconditional love is the key.
Frank Arrigazzi, TIP TOP Spiritual Lessons
Parental love is unconditional, and so is God’s love. No matter what a child of God has done against Him, or feels he or she has done that cannot be forgiven, God still loves that wondering soul.
Dr. David Jeremiah – The Jeremiah Study Bible
If you can give each new person you meet a clean slate to live by, and let them show you who they are by what they do, you then are showing a maturity and love for people that extends beyond you to benefit others.
Eric Watterson, I Forgive You
It is not possible to love God and hate your brother.
Russell M. Stendal, The Seventh Trumpet and the Seven Thunders
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Colossians 3:12-14 ESV
No matter what you’ve done, there is no sin beyond the reach of God’s grace once you have accepted Christ’s offer of forgiveness.
Randy Alcorn, Grace: A Bigger View of God’s Love
God offers us the very best, His perfect plan for our life which includes His Son, love, forgiveness, and peace.
Michele Ellison, Jesus Peace
Christian Quotes About Love and Friendship
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
Proverbs
We must never take our relationship with God for granted, become complacent, and lose the wonder of His love for us.
Dr. David Jeremiah
Right after establishing that God must be first, we are reminded that God should be in this position out of love, not out of duty.
Mark J Musser, The Christ-Centered Home
Jesus healed people one at a time because God cares about individual people.
Andy Stanley
When you’re connected with Jesus, you have free access to grace, peace, joy, love, hope; the list goes on and on.
Rebecca Bryan, The Carols of Christmas
If you have ever deeply loved another person you will bear witness to the fact that love gives us the power to transcend our own limitations and fears for the sake of the beloved.
Tonia Woolever, The Woman God Designed
God still finds His way to reach out to us. He finds us where we are at. In meeting with Him we find acceptance and unconditional love.
Esther Bautista, The Spiritual HSP: No One’s Perfect
One of the major ways we love our neighbour as ourselves is by praying for them–by interceding for them.
Michael Caputo, Prayer–According to Jesus Christ
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
See also: Bible Verses About Love.
Christian Quotes About Love and Marriage
No matter how many rules we make for ourselves, rules don’t create godly relationships. Only leaning on our faithful Father and longing to please Him with everything we do will set the stage for a beautiful romance!
Eric Ludy
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G.K. Chesterton
Great marriages don’t happen by luck or by accident. They are the result of a consistent investment of time, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, affection, prayer, mutual respect, and a rock-solid commitment between a husband and a wife.
Dave Willis
To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can’t agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.
R.C. Sproul
If we want to be thoroughly hot with zeal, we must go near to the furnace of the Savior’s love.
Lady Powerscourt
Being loving is at the heart of the Christian message, as through loving others, we show our faith.
Estella Eliot, Positively Christian
If we claim to love God but don’t love each other our love is nothing and meaningless.
David Alley, 20 Things to Know About Apostles Today
Christian Quotes About Love and Family
Cherish your family connections. They are one of God’s greatest ways of demonstrating his love and fellowship.
Norman Vincent Peale
Families are intended to be unified, kind, loving, godly, helpful, selfless, and a witness and reflect of God.
Jenifer Jernigan, from Dive Deeper
The family is the divinely designed structure for human relationships and living. It is the context in which children are to be born, nurtured, and prepared to take their place in society as mature, responsible, productive citizens.
James Dobson
A family is a circle of love and strength with each member bearing one another’s burdens.
Unknown
Within the circle of my family, I am at home wherever I am.
Unknown
Inspirational Christian Quotes About Love
In His grace He sends us times when we experience afresh the reality of His love, but in truth His love is constant, never changes and never fails.
Ann Allfrey, Prayer Drive … One Year On
Love leaves a legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.
Rick Warren – What On Earth Am I Here for?
In a world characterized by loneliness and despair, we can reach out in love to those around us. Or, as St. Francis once said, we can “preach the gospel all the time; if necessary, usewords.”
Phil Callaway, Making Life Rich Without Any Money
A true Christian is one that acts the same around everyone and always endeavors to live a life that if filled with compassion and love.
Olivia Benjamin, Billy Graham: Graham, 70 Greatest Life Lessons
We are to enjoy what we have while we have it, but we are never to get to the point where we think we could not love without it.
Joyce Meyers, Be Anxious For Nothing
As a Christian, you can enjoy life because your conscience is clear. You can enjoy life because you are secure within God’s love.
Rick Warren
Never procrastinate in showing love. Don’t delay. Don’t put it off. Do it now.
Rick Warren
Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it’s expressed in deed and behavior.
Dr. David Jeremiah
Love, in the words of the Master, is the shining commandment: LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
Wilferd A. Peterson, The Art of Living Treasure Chest
As you begin to love others as you love yourself and strive to do unto others as you would have others do unto you, you will find that you are changing, and that change comes from the heart by the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Gaines Johnson, The Bible, Genesis and Geology
When you are filled with love, and you are busy loving, you have no time to fear.
Michael Caputo, How to Prevent Your Love From becoming Cold
Love has a quality that it becomes stronger as the time passed.
Adam Green, Greatest Life Lessons, Observations And Motivational Quotes From T.D. Jakes
Holding anger and angry thoughts doesn’t allow love to grow in your heart. If you don’t have love in your heart or mind, your actions will not come from a place of compassion or kindness.
Winnie Anderson, Faith From 9 to 5: How to Overcome the Seven Deadly Sins and Live Your Faith at Work
Love is not talk or theory; it’s action. In fact the Bible says that we cannot be walking in love if we see a brother in need, have what it takes to meet his need, and will not do anything to help him.
Joyce Meyers, the power of simple prayer
Inspirational Quotes About Jesus
However, when Jesus tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves, he isn’t arguing that we shouldn’t love ourselves but that we should instead extend our instincts for self-care to taking care of others.
Randy Alcorn, God’s Promise of Happiness
Love pays attention. Love listens to the fears and the doubts of others and treats them with respect. Love accepts others the way Jesus accepts you.
Rick Warren
Does your love to Him ring true? And your life and service, too? Can the world see Jesus in you?
Leila N. Morris
Those in the circle of Christ had no doubt of his love; those in our circles should have no doubt about ours.
Max Lucado – Just Like Jesus
Jesus preached the good news about God’s love for everyone.
Roger Quy, All About Jesus: The Single Story from Matthew, Mark, Luke, & John
In Jesus, you are loved and accepted not because of what you do, but because of what Christ has done for you.
Ruth Schwenk
Those who love Jesus express that love each time we tangibly help the “least of these,” for when we do it to them, we do it unto Jesus.
Wendell E, Mettey, What God Desires
See also: Inspirational God Quotes
