Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

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

In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.

That's all I want in life is to be remembered as a guy that really loved God.

Having grown up Protestant, I was unfamiliar with St. Francis. Then I watched the movie 'Brother Sun, Sister Moon'... I just became fascinated with the character of St. Francis. What I saw in that movie was a man who had fallen in love with God, someone for whom God was everything.

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

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

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

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 the epiphany of God in our poverty.

Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for Himself is love: and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours. The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the Law.

If we can not love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we can not see?

Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

love is the every only god

Love is life, love is god, love is sannyas!

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

God is a name we give to love.

I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.

God can only be comprehended as Love.

Love is one of the most subtle blessings that the All-Merciful One has bestowed upon humanity.

We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.

God loves you UNCONDITIONALLY.

I think there is, not in the sense that I enjoy it, but that it's an important question. It's the question, "Does the presence of pain mean God doesn't care? Does God not love me anymore?" I think that's a very common connection we tend to make. I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.

Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.