God is love…

• God is love, but get it in writing. Gypsy Rose Lee
• God is love so all God does is loving. Scot McKnight
• My God is love and sweetly suffers all. Sri Aurobindo
• God is the author and God is love. Jennifer Rothschild
• The greatest attribute of God is Love. Baird T. Spalding
• We must always remember that God is Love. Swami Vivekananda
• God is love and if you are ready, he always is. Lenny Kravitz
• We need to return to the simplicity that God is love. Rob Bell
• God is Love, my friends- nothing more, nothing less. Sylvia Browne
• God is love, the parson whined. Yes, and is he also blind?   H. White
• God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven. Imelda Marcos
• Walk and talk in manner of love or charity, for God is love. Alveda King
• Because God is love, He could not completely cast man aside. Billy Graham
• God is love, the bishops tell. Yes, I know, But love is hell.  H. White
• He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love. Leo Tolstoy
• The only reality is God. There cannot be another and God is love. Linda Stewart
• To say that God is love is in effect to say simply that love is God. Don Cupitt
• God is love and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. Bible
• God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. John the Apostle
• God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn’t just love. God is love. Miroslav Volf
• Love is a big word. I believe in Love. I believe that God is Love. Pauley Perrette
• Love is God and God is love, no one’s below and no one’s above. John Reuben Zappin
• God’s unfailing love for us is an objective fact affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. It is true whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God’s love, nor does our faith create it. It originates in the very nature of God, who is love, and it flows to us through our union with His beloved Son. Jerry Bridges
• God is the evolutionary impulse of the universe. God is infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite caring. Deepak ChopraI am God, says Love, for Love is God and God is Love, and this Soul is God by the condition of Love. Marguerite Porete
• As far as I’m concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love. Madeleine L’Engle
• That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly. John Owen
• Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love. Pope Benedict XVI
• God is Love’ means that He tries constantly to block your route to destruction. Billy Graham
• God is love, the human being is all love, only the human has forgotten it long ago. Irina Tweedie
• God is love. He didn’t need us. But he wanted us. And that is the most amazing thing. Rick Warren
• No one will know what you mean by saying that ‘God is love’ unless you act it as well. P. Jacks
• God is love; to do his will is to scatter love in handfuls of blessing on a weary world. B. Meyer
• Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love. Rick Warren
• God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity. Ralph Ellison
• God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love. Mary Baker Eddy
• God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great. Mahatma Gandhi
• If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God. S. Lewis
• God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people. John Piper
• I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. William P. Young
• Every life, I think, has that potential because I believe each life is a gift of God… because God is love. Dolores Hart
• Chance and change are busy ever; Man decays, and ages move; But His mercy waneth never; God is wisdom, God is love. John Bowring
• God is love and love is everywhere, however you need to see it or experience it, whatever name you have for it. Kevin Daniels
• God is love, generosity and forgiveness; if we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyse us. Paulo Coelho
• God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don’t have the license to define love according to our standards. Francis Chan
• I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• How beautiful that after 2,000 years, no one can outdo God is love. It’s the most perfectly concise, hopeful phrase in history. Mark Hart
• Love is the language we as believers must speak. Galatians 3:26 says we are ALL children of God. The spirit of God is Love. Ricardo Sanchez
• God’s unfailing love for us is an objective fact affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. It is true whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God’s love, nor does our faith create it. It originates in the very nature of God, who is love, and it flows to us through our union with His beloved Son. Jerry Bridges
• Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the beloved. Even when it doesn’t seem to make a dime’s worth of difference to the ones on whom it is lavished, it is still the most prized of all virtues because it is at the heart of the very character of God. Rich Mullins
• The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don’t separate me from the conviction that God is love. Sinclair B. Ferguson
• We say that God is love, and then some cheer the drowning of the pharaoh’s army in the Red Sea or the destruction of Sodom. Morris T. Johnstone
• In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God. Mother Teresa
• God is love. There is no judgement and there is no separateness. And the only ‘hell’ is the one we create for ourselves here on Earth. Neale Donald Walsch
• This is all that I’ve known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love. Soren Kierkegaard
• God is love and doesn’t ask for anything back in return. So it’s that process of letting go and just allowing, and just being in that pure state. Wayne Dyer
• Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love. Oswald Chambers
• The words ‘God is love’ conclude a biblical warning, not a warm and fuzzy slogan. ‘He who doesn’t love [his neighbor] doesn’t love God, for God is love.’ Mel White
• Be hopeful at all times and walk in faith, but above all seek love an walk in it. God is love, and when we walk in love we show Him to those we come in contact with. Joyce Meyer
• God is love. His plan for creation can only be rooted in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasoning, offer solace to the human heart? Paramahansa Yogananda
• 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. Jacques Ellul
• Everywhere you look you see people searching for love but they’re looking in the wrong places. God is love, and they will never find what they’re looking for until they find Him. Joyce Meyer
• None but God is loved in the existent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover – and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover. Ibn Arabi
• I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us about this love, so that we could live in this love and extend it to others. Rob Bell
• When people say, God is love, I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence. Timothy Keller
• God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness. Peter Kreeft
• I profess the religion of love, Love is my religion and my faith. My mother is love.  My father is love.  My prophet is love  My God is love. I am a child of love. I have come only to speak of love.  Rumi
• There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is modified by the different degrees of intelligence in different beings and creatures. John James Audubon
• On the question of relating to our fellowman – our neighbor’s spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love. Edith Stein
• I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love. Leo Tolstoy
• As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor’s soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love. Edith Stein
• The ancient traditions, even Christianity, say God is Love. There is symmetry here. The fundamental step where you get into this transcendent state is this feeling of ebullience, love and caring and unity. Edgar Mitchell
• The famous saying ‘God is love’, it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the ‘otherness’ and terror of God Charles Williams
• To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name. Thomas Merton
• God, the very creative power at the center of the universe, is loving and caring like a truly devoted parent. This love is not one aspect of God….but the very organizing reality at the heart of things. God is love. Morton T. Kelsey
• I don’t say God is love, I say love is God. To me God is only a symbol and love is a reality. God is only a myth – love is the experience of millions of people. God is only a word, but love can become a dance in your heart. Rajneesh
• 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. Frederick William Robertson’
• I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object. Soren Kierkegaard
• Only God is love, and for this love to be fully realized self must step aside. And not only do we not need a self to love God, but for the same reason we do not need a mind to know him, for that in us which knows God, is God. Bernadette Roberts
• 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. Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria
• In Christianity, it’s very clear that the god we worship is equal to love. The bible says, ‘God is love’. The god we worship was sacrificed, crucified on the cross, tortured, spit on, and was still forgiving. This is our highest example. Mosab Hassan Yousef
• We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, God is love ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
• The existence of God is infinite love itself. Masahisa Goi
• God is love. I don’t say the heart doesn’t feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn’t recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us – God’s love. Graham Greene
• God is love. God accepts you as you are. God expects nothing of you. God does not judge. Nothing makes God unhappy. God would never condemn anyone. You do not need to change anything or “get better” to be seen as perfect and beautiful in God’s eyes. Neale Donald Walsch
• God is love in its purest form. His love seeks nothing from us and demands nothing of us. His love is unconditionally given to all who believe in him. To be in his presence and share his love, we must become as he is and learn to love without judgments or conditions. Betty J. Eadie
• God’s grace is amazing! We’re saved by grace – God’s undeserved favor – and we live by grace, which is also God’s power in our lives to do what we could never do in our own strength. And it’s all because God is love, and He loves us unconditionally, constantly and completely. Joyce Meyer
• How do you recover from an extraordinary loss? Take stock of the loved ones around you. Hug them, love them, and cherish them. When you appreciate the joys in your life, it makes sorrow that much easier to swallow. Every day is a new day. Hope floats, so let it rise. God is love. Joseph Simmons
• Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 lAnyone who does not love does not know God, because mGod is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that nGod sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 1 John 4:7–9
• If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense. S. Lewis
• 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. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• I am God, says Love, for Love is God and God is Love, and this Soul is God by the condition of Love. I am God by divine nature and this Soul is God by the condition of Love. Thus this precious beloved of mine is taught and guided by me, without herself, for she is transformed into me, and such a perfect one, says Love, takes my nourishment. Marguerite Porete
• Augustine pointed out that the Bible declares, “God is Love” in 1 John 4:16. He also noted that love involves a lover, a beloved, and a spirit of love that exists between the two. Love, described in this way, is a personal unified relationship that requires all three of these elements to co-exist distinctly and simultaneously. In essence, love is triune. Warner
• God is life. I understand that and express it. God is perfect Truth. I understand that and express it. God is Love. I understand that and express it. I radiate thoughts of love and peace and healing to the whole universe. If anyone has ever injured me or done me any harm, I fully and freely forgive that person now, and the thing is done forever. I go free. Emmet Fox
• God is love, she said. And he respects love, whether it’s between a parents, and child, a man and woman, or friends. I don’t think he cares about religion one little bit. Live your life right. Love with all your heart. Don’t hurt others, and help those in need. That is all you need to know. And don’t worry about heaven. If it exists, you’ll be welcome. Ellen Hopkins
• I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God is beauty; but what God actually is, whether the maker of all things, or the fragrance of all things, or just a dream in our own hearts, I have not the art to know. Neither have you, I believe; nor any man, nor any spirit of our humble stature. Olaf Stapledon
• Every moment of life brings an opportunity for being conscious of human feeling, in prosperity, in adversity, in all conditions. It costs very little; only a little thought is necessary. There is no greater religion than love. God is love; and the best form of love is to be conscientious regarding the feelings of those with whom we come in contact in everyday life. Hazrat Inayat Khan
• God is love: the affection of friend for friend, the tenderness of mother for child, the adoration of the lover for his love, the faithful devotion of a dog to his master, the deep and abiding love of the long and happily married husband and wife. These are all but faint suggestions of the power and the limitlessness of the love of God for each human spirit. Love is God. Gordon Parker
• Jesus says God is love. I would like to change it. I would like to say love is God. When you say God is love, love is only one of the qualities of God; he may have other qualities: wisdom, justice, etcetera. To me, love is God; godliness is only one of the qualities of love. There is no other God than the fragrance of love. But the fragrance can arise only in deep meditation. Rajneesh
• There is a place for analysis, but it is apt to be quite fatal in prayer and meditation. Do not dissect the love of God, but feel it. Do not dissect divine intelligence, but realize it. Do not wonder how God can possibly solve this problem, but just watch Him do it in His own way-and He will if you will give Him a chance. You know that God is Love. So go ahead on that, and do not get theoretical about it. Emmet Fox
• This theme is repeated throughout the scriptures. Both kataphatic and apophatic spirituality affirm it. God is love. God is love. God is love. This ultimate Reality extends wherever we are, wherever we go. Divine Love-Nature is shot through everyone and everything: you, me, rocks and trees, sinners and saints. It is accessible to Christians and Jews, Hindus and Buddhists, Americans and Iraqis, everyone everywhere. Doug  Hammack
• When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God. Carl Jung
• God is love. His is not a sentimental, emotional kind of love but the love of the Father who is the origin of all life, the love of the Son who dies on the Cross and is raised, the love of the Spirit who renews human beings and the world. Thinking that God is love does us so much good, because it teaches us to love, to give ourselves to others as Jesus gave himself to us and walks with us. Jesus walks beside us on the road through life. Pope Francis
• Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free. But it is only in freedom that you can find out what is true, what is God, not through any belief; because your belief projects what you think God ought to be, what you think ought to be true. If you believe God is love, God is good, God is this or that, your very belief prevents you from understanding what is God, what is true. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• God’s love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than being lit, it really gives its light to the earth. And because the earth really receives light from the sun, it is really transformed every morning from darkness to light. Just as objectively, because God is love, God really gives love to us. And because we receive real life-changing love from God, we are really transformed from darkness to light. Peter Kreeft
• Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayers (your Father knows what you need before you ask him). But by inviting us into the partnership of creation, God also invites us into relationship. God is love, said the apostle John. God does not merely have love or feel love. God is love and cannot not love. As such, God yearns for relationship with the creatures made in his image. Philip Yancey
• That’s why we cannot love, because with the ego, love is impossible. That’s why we go on talking so much about love, but we never are in love. And whatsoever we call love is more or less sex, it is not love; because you cannot lose your ego, and love cannot exist unless the ego has disappeared. Love, meditation, godliness, they all require one thing – the ego must not be there. That’s why Jesus is right in saying that God is love, because both phenomena happen only when the ego is not. Rajneesh
• The greatest attribute of God is Love. The Tree of Life is located in the very depth of our soul. The most perfect and abundant fruit that grows and ripens is Life giving Love; it is the great healing force in the world. Love never fails to meet every demand of the human heart. The Divine principal of Love may be used to eliminate every sorrow, infirmity, in-harmony, ignorance and all mistakes of mankind. Love is God; eternal, limitless, changeless, infinite. It is the pulse of the world, the heartbeat of the Universe. Baird T. Spalding
• My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon his loving me, whether he would or no. To stop God loving me would be to rob him of his Godhood; for God is love no less than he is truth; as he is good, so is he love as well. It is the absolute truth, as God lives… If anyone would ask me what God is, I should answer: God is love, and so altogether lovely that creatures all with one accord essay to love his loveliness, whether they do so knowingly or unbeknownst, in joy or sorrow. Meister Eckhart
• Thou shall love the Lord with thy whole heart, soul, and mind. This is the commandment of the Great God, and he cannot command the impossible. Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice by an intense inner life. There is no limit because God is love, love is God, God’s love is infinite. But part is to love and to give until it hurts. That’s why it is not how much you do, but how much love you put into the action. Mother Teresa
• To me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness. When you are in love, all fears disappear, and when you become love yourself, even death becomes irrelevant. Jesus is not very far away from the truth when he says, God is love. Certainly God is power, the greatest power. I want to improve upon Jesus: I don’t say God is love, I say love is God. To me God is only a symbol and love is a reality. God is only a myth – love is the experience of millions of people. God is only a word, but love can become a dance in your heart. Rajneesh

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…and love is God

• There are only two states of consciousness that exist – the state of the ego and the state of love. The ego is the narrow state, the seed-form, the atomic stage; love is all encompassing, love is God. The center of the ego is I; the ego exists for itself. The nectar of love is the universe. Love exists for all. Rajneesh
• To love is everything: love is God. Leon Gozlan
• What binds us together is love, and only love. For love is a Person. Love is God. Catherine Doherty
• Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. Leo Tolstoy
• Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God. Lew Wallace
• Love is God’s essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power. Richard B. Garnett
• The art of love is God at work through you. Wilferd Peterson
• Love is God, and the one that believes in love, believes in God. Shri Radhe Maa
• Love is God’s loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, Give us this day our daily bread. Henry Ward Beecher
• Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. Leo Tolstoy
• The power to Love is God’s greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves. Khalil Gibran
• Love is ev­erything. Love is God. Live in love. Sathya Sai Baba
• Love is power, the purest power and the greatest power: Love is God. Nothing can be higher than that. But this power is not a desire to enslave others, this power is not a destructive force. This power is the very source of creation. This power is creativity. And this power will transform you totally into a new being. It has no concern with anybody. Its whole concern is to bring your seeds to their ultimate flowering. Rajneesh
• Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love. Leo Tolstoy
• Love is life, love is god, love is sannyas! Rajneesh
• Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope. Timothy Keller
• Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God. Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur
• Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God John the Apostle
• I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the God of love, the great ‘I am’ energy. Vera Farmiga
• Love is what God is, love is why Jesus came, and love is why he continues to come, year after year to person after person…May you experience this vast, expansive, infinite, indestructible love that has been yours all along. May you discover that this love is as wide as the sky and as small as the cracks in your heart no one else knows about, and may you know, deep in your bones, that love wins. Rob Bell
• Love is what God is… May you experience this vast, expansive, infinite, indestructible love that has been yours all along. May you discover that this love is as wide as the sky and as small as the cracks in your heart no one else knows about, and may you know, deep in your bones, that love wins. Rob Bell

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Love and God are identical

• For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love. Carter Heyward
• God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God. Meher Baba
• There is no path greater than love. There is no law higher than love. And there is no goal beyond love. God and love are identical. Meher Baba

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God is all about love

• If it isn’t about love, it isn’t about God. Susan Jeffers
• Love is our highest word and the synonym for God. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• God’s presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel. Frederica Mathewes-Green
• Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God. John the Apostle

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Love is the very essence of God

• Where love is, there God is also. Mohandas Gandhi
• Where there is love, there is God also. Leo Tolstoy
• The divine essence itself is love and wisdom. Emanuel Swedenborg
• He who is filled with love is filled with God himself. Saint Augustine
• Whenever we deepen our quest for God, love is what we find. Doug Hammack
• God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form. Nicholas Sparks
• Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself. Henri Bergson
• Love has its source in God, for love is the very essence of His being. Kay Arthur
• While we cannot contain a full understanding of God, we contend that the fundamental nature of the Divine is Love. Doug Hammack
• Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness. Martin Luther
• Love is not a quality of ‘God’- is it God’s very Essence. It is the ALL-encompassing Reality of the Never-Ending Present. It is the Core of Your Existence. David R. Hawkins
• God is to me that creative force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love. Henry Sloane Coffin
• Love is the root of creation; God’s essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated on a throne. Divinity is love. . . . Wherever goodness, beauty, truth, love, are– there is the divine. Harry Emerson Fosdick
• God is not understood in His essence until He is also understood as Infinite Love. Divine Love is unlimited in essence and expression, because it is experienced by the soul through the soul itself. The sojourn of the soul is a thrilling divine romance in which the lover, who in the beginning is conscious of nothing but emptiness, frustration, superficiality and the gnawing chains of bondage, gradually attains an increasingly fuller and freer expression of love and ultimately disappears and merges in the Divine Beloved to realize the unity of the Lover and the Beloved in the supreme and eternal fact of God as Infinite Love. Meher Baba

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God is the love at the heart of all relationships

• There are no different categories of love. There isn’t one kind of love between a mother and child, another between lovers, and nother between friends. The love that is real is the love that lies at the heart of all relationships.  That is the love of God and it doesn’t change with form or circumstance. Marianne Williamson
• We become truly personal by loving God and by loving other humans… In its deepest sense, love is the life, the energy, of the Creator in us. Kallistos Ware
• I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love. William Blake
• Love is not an intellectual concept or a moral imperative or anything else. It is the background emotion that exists when one is connected to the energy available in the universe, which of course, is the energy of God. James Redfield

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The love that God is is powerful beyond measure

• Love is unconditional acceptance. It is love of parents for child; also the non-possessive love of partners; also the caring love between all people that enables forgiveness. It’s above energy, though it may be expressed energetically. It’s our essential nature: Spirit itself, the quality we share with God. And it is the binding force of the Universe, inherent in all that is. Peter Shepherd
• Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi
• To achieve charity, we must submit, become patient, meek, humble. . . . We must exercise the love of God as a power. Enzio Busche
• ‘Someday after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love,’ writes the philosopher Teilhard de Chardin. ‘And then, for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.’ Defying entropy, defying probability, God is, in the words of Samuel Longfellow, the ‘Life that maketh all things new.’ When I recognize the presence of God working through me, I live with a sense of high adventure and eternal significance. Ann Fields
• It is good and true to think that every ray of the sun touching the earth has the sun at the other end of it. Just so, every bit of love upon God’s earth has God at the other end of it. Mark Guy Pearse
• Love creates new form, changes matter, and holds the cosmos together beyond time and space. It’s in every one of us. It’s what God is. Wayne Dyer
• For me, it is enough for God to be and to have the power of Dynamic Love. Instead of thinking of God’s power as similar to the physical force of the moon’s pull on the tides or the power of a command or a thunderbolt, I find it more helpful to consider God’s power as consistent, dependable Love. Carolyn Jane Bohler
• Love creates new form, changes matter, and holds the cosmos together beyond time and space. It’s in every one of us. It’s what God is. Wayne Dyer
• Love is a universal force, like gravity, that holds the solar system together and pours into our hearts as life-force – and gets expressed to us most beautifully by small children and animals. Christiane Northrup
• Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness… Love will never die. Bryce Courtenay
• Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself. Eckhart Tolle

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It is through unconditional love that we can come to know God

• But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. Vincent van Gogh
• Earthly things must be known to be loved; Divine things must be loved to be known. Blaise Pascal
• Existence is god called through love, provoked through love. The moment you become capable of prayer, existence becomes god. The moment you become capable of deep love, life becomes god. It is a transfiguration of the same energy. Rajneesh
• God can only be met in emptiness, by those who come in love, abandoning all effort to control. Belden Lane
• In that process of coming to know that which we name as divine, the God who is love is slowly transformed into the love that is God. Let me repeat that…We breathe love in, and we breathe love out. It is omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent. It is never exhausted, always expanding. When I try to describe this reality, words fail me; so I simply utter the name God. That name, however, is no longer for me the name of a being. John Shelby Spong
• It is good and true to think that every ray of the sun touching the earth has the sun at the other end of it. Just so, every bit of love upon God’s earth has God at the other end of it. Mark Guy Pearse
• To love another person is to see the face of God. Victor Hugo
• To love is to see the divine in the person beside us, and to meditate is to see the divine within us. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
• To understand the nature of God, it is necessary only to know the nature of love itself. To truly know love is to know and understand God; and to know God is to understand love. David R. Hawkins
• We come to God by love and not by navigation. Saint Augustine
• While we cannot contain a full understanding of God, we contend that the fundamental nature of the Divine is Love. Doug Hammack
• You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer
• You know my God. My God is called love Mother Teresa
• Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air of freedom and forget my own petty self. In love my whole being streams forth out of the rigid confines of narrowness and anxious self-assertion, which make me a prisoner of my own poverty emptiness. In love all the powers of my soul flow out toward you, wanting never more to return, but to lose themselves completely in you, since by your love you are the inmost center of my heart, closer to me than I am to myself. Karl Rahner
• Feel the love of God; then in every person you will see the face of the Father, the light of love which is in all. You will find a magic, living relationship uniting the trees, the sky, the stars, all people, and all living things; and you will feel a oneness with them. This is the code of divine love. Paramahansa Yogananda

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God can be directly experienced as love…

• I experience God as the power of love. John Shelby Spong
• I think I can tell you how I experience God. I experience God as the power of life calling me to live, I experience God as the power of love calling me to love. John Shelby Spong
• God is a quality, an experience – like love. You cannot talk to love, you can live it. Rajneesh
• It’s not about finding ways to avoid God’s judgment and feeling like a failure if you don’t do everything perfectly. It’s about fully experiencing God’s love and letting it perfect you. It’s not about being somebody you are not. It’s about becoming who you really are. Stormie Omartian
• The experience of Divine Life and Divine Love trump doctrine and creedal belief. Doug Hammack
• The experience of overarching Love is the point of walking the path of God. It is the quest for ultimate Reality. It is the quest for that which passes understanding. Doug Hammack
• The testimony of those who have gone before us is unanimous. When we focus on simply being present to the indwelling Presence, something happens to us. Our thoughts, feelings, and assumptions about God change. People of steadfast contemplative practice begin to frame God less as the metaphor-God, and more as an experience of love. Doug Hammack
• Though our tradition insists we cannot contain God in our minds, it also insists we can experience God. And when we do, we experience love. As we come to depend less and less on transient and impermanent images, our religion insists that the essential experience of God is of goodness and love. God is good. We are safe. Doug Hammack
• What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of that one life deep within yourself and within all creatures. To be it. Therefore, all love is the love of God. Eckhart Tolle
• Whatever God is, we experience his nature, or her nature, or its nature (we struggle for language, don’t we?) when we live in the experience of love. Doug  Hammack
• When you are in the presence of unconditional love, that is the optimum environment for your heart to open, because you feel safe, because you realize nobody wants anything from you. The minute that heart opens, you are once again letting in the flow. And that flow is where you experience God. Ram Dass

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…and this experience fundamentally changes us

• As the experience of Divine Love deepens in us, we change. As we become increasingly present to the incomprehensible God, the expansiveness of Divine Love captures us. Taken on this spiritual journey we find ourselves unable to maintain the narrow focus of “me and mine,” “how I feel,” or “what I want.” Those captured by the love of God inevitably focus on social justice. They invariably begin to care for the earth and its inhabitants. Doug Hammack

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We discover that divine love is all that’s ultimately real

• Everything is illusion, except for the Divine Love of God that is all-pervading which you can feel through your Spirit. Nirmala Srivastava
• The longer I live and the more I see of the struggle of souls toward the heights above, the stronger this truth comes home to me: That the Universe rests on the shoulders of love; a love so limitless, deep, and broad, that men have renamed it and called it–God. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. Rabindranath Tagore

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We realise that love is the very purpose of existence

• Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life – not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light. Surya Das
• Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love. Sri Chinmoy
• Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• Love is the reflection of God’s unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation. Meher Baba
• True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Mary Baker Eddy
• Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love. Ramakrishna

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We discover the unlimited nature of God as love

• There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still. Corrie Ten Boom
• Limitless undying love that shines upon me like a million suns and calls me on and on across the universe. John Lennon
• God’s LOVE is Like an Ocean; You can See its Beginning, but not its end. Rick Warren

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We discover the depths of God’s love for us

• God loves each one of us as if there were only one of us. St Augustine
• There is nothing you need to do to make yourself more acceptable to God. You don’t have to work harder, nor do you need to change the kind of work you do. You don’t have to give more money to charitable organizations.  The reality is, God doesn’t want you to give anyone anything if you only do it to impress God!  God does not love you or find you acceptable because of anything that you do.  God loves you and accepts you because you are a part of God.  Iyanla Vanzant
• Where else would God’s love be than right here, now? Michael Jeffreys
• Ah, Lord God, thou holy lover of my soul, when thou comest into my heart, all that is within me shall rejoice. Thomas a Kempis
• God looks at the world through the eyes of love. Roberta Bondi
• God loves us beyond comprehension, and we cannot diminish God’s love for us. Saint Peter
• God loves us NOT because we’re lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give. S. Lewis
• The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not. C. S. Lewis
• To be loved by God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement, and the highest position in life. Henry Blackaby

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There are those who continue to insist that God is both love and wrath…

• It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite points of view. How we shall experience it depends upon the way we shall come up against it: God does not change; it is man’s moral state that changes. The wrath of God is a figure of speech to denote God’s unchanging opposition to sin; it is His righteous love operating to destroy evil. It is not evil that will have the last word, but good; not sorrow, but joy; not hate, but love. Reginald John Campbell
• The severity of the law of God is the necessary sequence of his infinite love. Campbell Morgan
• Scripture does not say that God is ‘love, love, love’ or that He is ‘wrath, wrath, wrath,’ but that He is ‘holy, holy, holy.’ C. Sproul

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…and even hang onto the concept of hell…

• A lot of people say, well how can a loving God send anyone to hell? First of all God doesn’t send anyone to hell. If we go to hell, it’s by our own choice. But when somebody says to me, how can a loving God allow anyone to go to hell, I’ll turn around and say, “Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?” Josh McDowell
• Don’t say that a loving God is going to send you to hell- He’s not. The thing that’s going to send you to hell is that you’re a sinner and you don’t want to admit it. Vernon McGee
• Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god’s infinite love. Bill Hicks

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…while others point out love and wrath are incompatible

• God is not some remote, inaccessible, and implacable being who demands instant perfection from His creatures and of whose love we must make ourselves worthy. He is not a tyrant to be obeyed out of terror, nor a policeman who is ever on the watch, nor a harsh judge ever ready to apply the verdict of guilty. We should relate to Him less and less in terms of reward and punishment and more and more on the basis of the gratuity–or the play of divine love.Thomas Merton
• The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator. Richard Rohr
• There is no Hell, for that means there is a place where God is not, and there are no sins which exceed his love. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say God is love they will claim that you are taking things out of context! Dan Barker
• God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word. H. Auden

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Let go of the idea of a wrathful, judgemental God and focus on God as love

• Because we are angry and judgmental, we have projected those characteristics onto Him. But God remains who He is and always will be: He is the energy, the thought of unconditional love.  He cannot think with anger or judgment.  He is mercy and compassion and total acceptance.   Marianne Williamson
• For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn’t seem very comforting if we think of Him as something outside ourselves, or capricious, or judgmental. But God is love and He dwells within us. We are created in His image, or mind, which means that we are extensions of His love, or Sons and Daughters of God. Marianne Williamson