John Milton Quotes

If you are a good missionary, you will return home with the desire to continue to serve the Lord, to keep His commandments, and to do His will.

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.

We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more faithfully and because they loved Him more perfectly.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.

I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed.

May I always be found 'on the Lord's errand.'

God wants to help us... He loves us... we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.

Love God, then do what you will.

Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.

Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature,--loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.

When the day of recompense comes, our only regret will be that we have done so little for Him, not that we have done too much.

The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

Go forth in confidence and go forth in peace. For there are angels to your left and angels to your right; angels in front of you and angels behind you; angels above you and angels below. You are loved, and you are not alone.

I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.