Jessica White Quotes

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

No holiday, no job, no amount of money, not even my own security can mean more to me than my love for God.

You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.

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.

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

I want to live with that sense with the music I make, with the art I make, with the way I love my kids, with the way I am a father and a husband and a friend and a follower of Christ, I want to live with reckless abandonment to the truth of the Gospel.

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

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.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

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

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena) Simply do the next thing in love. I have no sense of myself apart from you. Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.

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.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.