Francois Fenelon Quotes

People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God's will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.

Our Father, here I am, at your disposal, your child, to use me to continue your loving the world, by giving Jesus to me and through me, to each other that we allow Jesus to love in us and through us with the love with which His Father loves him.

If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

It will never be about our love for God. It will always be about His magnificent love for us.

Let only that little be left of me whereby I may name thee my all. Let only that little be left of my will whereby I may feel thee on every side, and come to thee in everything, and offer to thee my love every moment. Let only that little be left of me whereby I may never hide thee. Let only that little of my fetters be left whereby I am bound with thy will, and thy purpose is carried out in my life--and that is the fetter of thy love.

It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.

I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.

What is holiness? The end product of what holiness is it's to love God in the same way He loves Himself; it's to esteem God as much as He esteems Himself, and to separate yourself unto that love, and to keep yourself in that love.

Are you willing to say to God that He can have whatever He wants? Do you believe that whole hearted commitment to Him is more important than any other thing or person in your life? Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter; unless it is about loving God and loving the people He has made?

I desire only Him and to be wholly His.

He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.

There is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one's life apart from self-abandonmen t, in a continuous crescendo, into the hands of a love that seems to grow constantly because it has its origin in God.

O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.

Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.

I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.

It is possible to be at the top of Christian service, respected and admired, and not have that indispensable ingredient by which God has chosen to work in His world today - the absolute sacrificial agape love of the Eternal God.

My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

Our obedience to God’s commandments comes as a natural outgrowth of our endless love and gratitude for the goodness of God.

When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin

We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.