Alice Cary Quotes

The Savior will let you feel the love He feels for those you serve. The call is an invitation to become like Him.

My service to humanity is my real opportunity to prove my genuine love for God and God alone.

We come to love those we serve. If we choose to begin to serve the Master out of even a glimmer of faith, we will begin to know Him. We will come to know His purposes for the people we serve for Him. Even when they do not accept our offer to serve them, we will feel His appreciation if we persist.

The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.

Only God knows how much I love you.

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.

Love for the Lord, love for His servants the missionaries. Missionary work is a work of love and trust, and it has to be done on that basis.

On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

Love is a big word. I believe in Love. I believe that God is Love.

For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Love never ends or fails. Love never ends. Everything must be based on love - the relation between two friends, my ministry, my service; the church services in every field must be based on love. Why? Because God is Love.

Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.

Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.

When you really see how much God loves you, there's no greater love than that, and I had to match that amount of love He had for me, which is the reason why I decided to take a vow of celibacy.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

God is love, and love is love.

God loves all those who love him: I love them that love me.

In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.

The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.

He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.