Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth.

One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They even love those who wish them harm. If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die; rather, it manifests in the form.

Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.

One has to love unconditionally - the trees and the rocks and the sun and the moon and the people.

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

God loves the world through us.

If we would truly seek to be more like our Savior and Master, learning to love as He loves should be our highest goal

I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love.

Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.

For some people, they may categorize it as "gay love". And for me, I simply see it as love. And there's no corner of the universe where love cannot abide and grow.

It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love.

Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.

Lord Jesus, make us capable of loving as you love.

If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.

The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about

Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.

It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.

The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.

Since our peace lies in loving as God loves, we must strive to love everyone. The only love that completes us is the love of God, and the love of God is the love of everyone.

Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others.

Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it's what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them.