Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Quotes

What's at the heart of my faith is a belief that there's a creator. That we're all children of the same God. And that, fundamentally, the relationship you have with your spouse is important and eternal.

When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.

God is love, love is bhakti and bhakti our connection to God.

In my long life I have found peace, joy, and happiness beyond my fondest hopes and dreams. One of the supreme benedictions of my life has been my marriage to an elect daughter of God. I love her with all my heart and soul.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.

Where love is, there God is also.

I experience God as the power of love.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

Love is an emotional feeling on a human level and a faith experience on a supernatural level.

Good songwriters write about what consumes their heart, and ours is about our relationship with God.

Christianity is God's marriage proposal to the soul.

Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

... Love is heaven and claims its own.

Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.

Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave.

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.

We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.

The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. In all our heart; that is, in all our understanding without erring. In all our soul; that is, in all our will without gainsaying. In all our their ought; that is, that we think on Him without forgetting. In this manner is very love and true, that is work of man's will. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

Love is the cheapest of religions.