Dear
God help us and lead us towards Loving You more and more as it pleases You. I am presenting the verses in the Bible and the quotations that are said
by saints who are your children in your Love. I do hope in You that myself and the
reader would take these for the purpose of the Love of You. Amen.
Most of these are mentioned in another blog about Love. This is a collection of just the verses and quotes. If you are inspired to choose to use these verses and quotes in your life as a guideline, I wish myself and you the best to have enough grace to meditate on them thoroughly.
Love is patient, is kind: love envieth not, dealeth not perversely; Love is not puffed up;
Love is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil;
Love Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth;
Love Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Love never falleth away - 1 Corinthians 13:4-10
He who loves not lives not – Bl. Ramon Lull
Love means an exercise of affection, not an exhibition of honor - Fr. M. Eugene Boylan
Love has all other virtues in her train according to the teaching of St. Paul - St. Alphonsus Ligouri
If any one loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and will make our abode with him - John 14:23
If you love me, keep my commandments - John 14:15
Many keep the (Lord's) commandments as sick men take medicines, more from fear of dying in a state of damnation, than from love of living according to our Saviour's pleasure. On the contrary, the loving heart loves the commandments; and the harder they are, the more sweet and agreeable it finds them, because it more perfectly pleases the beloved, and gives him more honor - St. Francis De Sales
He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is Love (Charity) - 1 John 4:8
The reason for loving God is God: the method and measure is to love Him without method or measure - St. Bernard of Clairvaux (Book: On Loving God)
If a house is on fire, they throw everything out the window. As soon as a heart is inflamed with the love of God it seeks to divest itself of everything earthly so as to love nothing but God – St. Francis De Sales
But above all these things have charity (Love), which is the bond of perfection – Coloss. 3
St. Catherine of Genoa once said to Our Lord: "O my God, Thou commandest me to love my neighbor, I can love no one but Thee." Our Saviour replied: "My daughter, whoever loves Me loves everything that is loved by Me."
Even if the fire of love seemed to have gone out, I would keep on throwing fuel in it and Jesus would take care to light it up again - St. Therese of Lisieux
Who would think of paying a man to do what he was yearning to do already? For instance no one would hire a hungry man to eat, or a thirsty man to drink, or a mother to nurse her own child. … So, all the more, one who loves God truly asks no other recompense than God Himself; for if he should demand anything else it would be the prize that he loved and not God - St. Bernard of Clairvaux
I do not desire sensible affection, a love that I feel, but only a love that is felt by Jesus. Oh! to love Him and cause Him to be loved! - St. Therese of Lisieux
He who loves God because he finds in Him his own happiness has an interested, a selfish love, which really belongs to the virtue of hope and not to love. But he who loves God because for His (God's) own sake He deserves to be loved, has the true and genuine love of friendship - St. Alphonsus Ligouri
St. Gemma says the following: O my God, make haste that I die, and die of love for Jesus! Do You not see that my heart and my body are in the throes of an agony and that I am on fire? Do You not see that I am a victim of love and that I shall soon die of love? The world wearies me; I long for one thing only, love, love, love...
Most of these are mentioned in another blog about Love. This is a collection of just the verses and quotes. If you are inspired to choose to use these verses and quotes in your life as a guideline, I wish myself and you the best to have enough grace to meditate on them thoroughly.
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Thou shalt Love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.
And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thy heart: and thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising. And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes. And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy house - Deuteronomy Chapter 6
For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting - John 3
This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends - John 15:12,13
If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it. Mathew 16:24
This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends - John 15:12,13
If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it. Mathew 16:24
Love is patient, is kind: love envieth not, dealeth not perversely; Love is not puffed up;
Love is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil;
Love Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth;
Love Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Love never falleth away - 1 Corinthians 13:4-10
You know it, O my God, to love you on earth I have nothing but today - St. Therese of Lisieux
He who loves not lives not – Bl. Ramon Lull
Love means an exercise of affection, not an exhibition of honor - Fr. M. Eugene Boylan
Love has all other virtues in her train according to the teaching of St. Paul - St. Alphonsus Ligouri
We have merely to love Him, without looking at ourselves, without examining our faults too much - St. Therese of Lisieux
If any one loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and will make our abode with him - John 14:23
If you love me, keep my commandments - John 14:15
Many keep the (Lord's) commandments as sick men take medicines, more from fear of dying in a state of damnation, than from love of living according to our Saviour's pleasure. On the contrary, the loving heart loves the commandments; and the harder they are, the more sweet and agreeable it finds them, because it more perfectly pleases the beloved, and gives him more honor - St. Francis De Sales
He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is Love (Charity) - 1 John 4:8
Merit does not consist in doing or giving much. It consists in loving much - St. Therese of Lisieux
The reason for loving God is God: the method and measure is to love Him without method or measure - St. Bernard of Clairvaux (Book: On Loving God)
If a house is on fire, they throw everything out the window. As soon as a heart is inflamed with the love of God it seeks to divest itself of everything earthly so as to love nothing but God – St. Francis De Sales
But above all these things have charity (Love), which is the bond of perfection – Coloss. 3
St. Catherine of Genoa once said to Our Lord: "O my God, Thou commandest me to love my neighbor, I can love no one but Thee." Our Saviour replied: "My daughter, whoever loves Me loves everything that is loved by Me."
Even if the fire of love seemed to have gone out, I would keep on throwing fuel in it and Jesus would take care to light it up again - St. Therese of Lisieux
Love therefore is the fulfilling of the law - Romans 13:10
Who would think of paying a man to do what he was yearning to do already? For instance no one would hire a hungry man to eat, or a thirsty man to drink, or a mother to nurse her own child. … So, all the more, one who loves God truly asks no other recompense than God Himself; for if he should demand anything else it would be the prize that he loved and not God - St. Bernard of Clairvaux
I do not desire sensible affection, a love that I feel, but only a love that is felt by Jesus. Oh! to love Him and cause Him to be loved! - St. Therese of Lisieux
He who loves God because he finds in Him his own happiness has an interested, a selfish love, which really belongs to the virtue of hope and not to love. But he who loves God because for His (God's) own sake He deserves to be loved, has the true and genuine love of friendship - St. Alphonsus Ligouri
St. Gemma says the following: O my God, make haste that I die, and die of love for Jesus! Do You not see that my heart and my body are in the throes of an agony and that I am on fire? Do You not see that I am a victim of love and that I shall soon die of love? The world wearies me; I long for one thing only, love, love, love...
And now there remains faith, hope and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity (love). 1 Corinthians 13:13
Little things done out of love are those that charm the
Heart of Christ… On the contrary, the most brilliant deeds, when done without
love, are but nothingness - St. Therese of Lisieux
Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are
forgiven; for she loved much… And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved
thee; go in peace – Luke 7:47-50
Whosoever praises God for His essential goodness, and not
merely because of the benefits He has bestowed, does really love God for God’s
sake, and not selfishly – St Bernard of Clairvaux
The wise lover regards not so much the gift of Him Who loves
as the love of Him Who gives – Imitation of Christ
He does not want us to love Him for His gifts, but for
Himself alone... He is so beautiful, so ravishing even when He remains silent,
even when He hides Himself - St. Therese of Lisieux
Now a man cannot love his neighbor in God, except (i.e.
without) he love God Himself; for that reason we must love God first, in order
to love our neighbors in Him – St Bernard of Claivaux
Our Lord Jesus to (through) Maria Valtorta (Book: Victim Souls):
Remove all bridges between yourself and the world. Live in
Jesus and Mary. Remember that even if man gave everything he owns, to possess
Love, it would be nothing because Love is such a tremendous thing, that with
respect to God- the Love of your soul the true purpose of your life -
everything else is valueless. To possess Love is the only thing that counts.
And one can possess Love when one understands how to give up all that one
possesses, for Him
To live out of love means to banish all fear, every memory
of past faults. I see no mark of my sins, (because) in a moment love
burnt everything - St. Therese of Lisieux
Loving heart pours forth and sings hymns of joy when God
teaches it his commandments and justifications. And as the pilgrim who merrily
sings on his way adds indeed the exertion of singing to that of walking, and
yet actually, by this increase of labor, unwearies himself, and lightens the
hardship of the way; even so the sacred lover finds such sweetness in the
commandments, that nothing so much eases and refreshes him, as the gracious
load of the precepts of his God. Whereupon the holy Psalmist cries out: O Lord,
thy justifications, or commandments, were the subject of my song in the place
of my pilgrimage - Ps. 119:54 - St. Francis De Sales
There is no labor where love is, or if there be any, it is a
beloved labor. Labor mixed with love is a certain bitter-sweet, more pleasant
to the palate than a thing purely sweet - St. Francis De Sales
Some People make perfection consist in an austere life;
others in prayer; others in frequenting the sacraments; others in alms giving.
But they 'deceive' themselves: Perfect Sanctity consists in Loving God with our
Whole Heart - St. Alphonsus
Our Lord Jesus to (through) Maria Valtorta (Victim Souls):
When a soul succeeds in being Mine, to such an extent, Love
takes the place of Law and Commandments. They (which are the Law and
Commandments) are both Divine, but they still make their presence felt. They
are like a harness placed over your animal nature, so that it does not rear up
and fall into the precipices. But Love has no weight. It is not a bridle to
impose compulsion. It is a strength that leads you, even liberating you from
your humanity. When a soul really loves, Love takes the place of everything. …
Love is the mystical nurse who brings up souls destined for Heaven
Your Beloved is such that He will not accept what belongs to
another – He wants your heart for Himself alone, to be enthroned therein as King
in His own right – Imitation of Christ
And we know that to them that love God, all things work
together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be
saints. Romans 8:28
If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have
not charity (love), I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And if
I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if
I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity
(love), I am nothing. And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor,
and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity (love), it
profiteth me nothing - 1 Cor. 13:1-3
Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law? Jesus
said to him:
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Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with
thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.
This is the greatest and the first
commandment. And the second is like to this:
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself.
On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets. -
Mathew 22:36-40
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