Clementa C. Pinckney Quotes

If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Where love is, there God is also.

God to me is love.

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.

See how these Christians love one another.

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

My service to humanity is my real opportunity to prove my genuine love for God and God alone.

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

Some people call God, some people call Allah; I want to see the fruit of the love, I want to see the love, the love to help the brothers who may not be as fortunate as us.

Prayer reminds me it's not just about me. It's about all the people with whom I share this planet, and all of whom God has created, and all of whom he cares just as much about as he cares about me.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.

The secular mind is God's huge gift to us, for us to use for the sake of one another.

No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.

God is love, and love is love.

No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us.

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.