Philip Henry Quotes

You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.

God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.

Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.

The great commandment of life is to love the Lord.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a part of the redemptive quest.

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.

I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

I know with all my heart and soul that God lives. I believe He will enlighten our lives with His love for each of us if we strive to be worthy of that love, in the holy name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.

Why must we love the Lord? Because as we do so, we become refined, pure, and holy.

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

No holiday, no job, no amount of money, not even my own security can mean more to me than my love for God.

That's all I want in life is to be remembered as a guy that really loved God.

Faithful attendance at Church meetings brings blessings you can receive in no other way.

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

As I got older, I got closer to my faith and I got closer to Jesus, reading the Bible and living my life under God.