Orson Scott Card Quotes

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.

I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

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

The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in what we already have... it's grace and fresh gratitude that can make us strong enough to marvel in the seeming monotony of anything... And the happily married have eyes that look long enough to make the familiar new.

The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.

What is holiness? The end product of what holiness is it's to love God in the same way He loves Himself; it's to esteem God as much as He esteems Himself, and to separate yourself unto that love, and to keep yourself in that love.

Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.

We complicate prayer as we complicate many things. It is to love Jesus with undivided love-for you, for me, for all of us. And that undivided love is put into action when we do as Jesus said, love as I have loved you

It's easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

Only the hopeless love God.

If you've ever known the love of God, you know it's nothing but reckless and it's nothing but raging. Sometimes it hurts to be loved, and if it doesn't hurt it's probably not love, may be infatuation. I think a lot of American people are infatuated with God, but we don't really love Him, and they don't really let Him love them. Being loved by God is one of the most painful things in the world, it's also the only thing that can bring us salvation and it's like everything else that is really wonderful, there's a little bit of pain in it, little bit of hurt.

When we love another, we never ever seek to limit or restrict them in any way whatsoever. Love says, "My will for you is your will for you." Love says, "I choose for you what you choose for you." When I say, "I choose for you what I choose for you," then I'm not loving you. I'm loving me through you, because I'm getting what I want, rather than seeing you get what you want.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

Are you willing to say to God that He can have whatever He wants? Do you believe that whole hearted commitment to Him is more important than any other thing or person in your life? Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter; unless it is about loving God and loving the people He has made?

How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?

When you are wired to God in a unique way, nothing can separate you from the love of God

But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love.

Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.

If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do.

Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.