Florence Nightingale Quotes

Tell men that God is love; that right is right, and wrong, wrong; let them cease to admire philanthropy, and begin to love men; cease to pant for heaven, and begin to love God; then the spirit of liberty begins.

When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.

Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s love. The love of God is essentially a thought experience. In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way.

Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.

O Thou Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, what Thou bearest in Thy blessed hands and feet I cannot bear; take it all away. Hide me in the depths of Thy suffering love, mold me to the image of Thy divine passion.

A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.

The love of God is not created- it is His nature.

What can separate us from the love of God? An attempt to separate us by death simply releases us from the imprisonment of this world.

Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers!

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

Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work.

Salvation is universal because the love of God encompasses all. If God is God and if God is love, nothing is outside the love of God. A place like hell is thus inconceivable.

You can redefine your external world by an internal experience with the love of God.

He whom the Gods love dies young.

To Love is to reach God.

To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassin g. It is no lukewarm endeavor. It is total commitment of our very being-physicall y, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually-to a love of the Lord.

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

Since our peace lies in loving as God loves, we must strive to love everyone. The only love that completes us is the love of God, and the love of God is the love of everyone.

In the Christian perspective, the love of God and of all other human beings invites us to share and enjoy not just the best of the human potential as it evolves, but participation in the divine life itself.