Augustus Hare Quotes

Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

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.

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

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Though we may not necessarily forfeit our lives in service to our God, we can certainly demonstrate our love for Him by how well we serve Him.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.

You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.

When you really see how much God loves you, there's no greater love than that, and I had to match that amount of love He had for me, which is the reason why I decided to take a vow of celibacy.

I love my kids more than anything. I love them more than me in some ways.

My parents have sacrificed so much, more than any parents really should.

You are my daughter. I would love you if you put out the sun.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

Nothing outside of my child is important.

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

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.