Religion is love; in no case is it logic. — Beatrice Webb
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. — Albert Einstein
Pure love ... knows that only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest things out of great love - love, and always love. — Mary Faustina Kowalska
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. — Kahlil Gibran
Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God. — Swami Vivekananda
Love is my religion - I could die for it. — John Keats
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. — Kahlil Gibran
God cannot be realized without love. Yes, sincere love. — Sarada Devi
RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual. — Bertrand Russell
Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man. — Max Stirner
In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion. — Rumi
Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him. — Nathanael Emmons
The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest. — Daniel Boone
Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed. — Immanuel Kant
Short Religious Love Quotes
God and devotee are bound for ever in ropes of love — Shri Radhe Maa
True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. — J. D. Greear
Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart. — Ramakrishna
Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy. — Alexandre Dumas
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. — Jorge Luis Borges
Top 10 Religious Love Quotes
God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves. — Saint John Chrysostom
Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary. — Christine Caine
Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way. — Johnny Cash
Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing. — Nicky Gumbel
Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith. — Pope Francis
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life. — Edith Stein
He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant. — Maria Goretti
The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love. — Julian of Norwich
I've come to view Jesus much the way I view Elvis. I love the guy but the fan clubs really freak me out. — John Fugelsang
O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Religious Love Image Quotes
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure. — Bernard of Clairvaux
God has spoken to me many times that my job is to love and his job is to heal. — Heidi Baker
If we are not full of Him we have nothing to offer to anyone else. — Heidi Baker
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
Religion And Love Quotes
Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here;
Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here;
Men of hereafters talk and future lives, -
O love, there is no other life - but here. — Sayings
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people. — Martin Luther
My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba, And the tablets of the Torah, And the book of the Koran. I follow the religion of Love: Whatever way love's camel takes, That is my religion, my faith. — Ibn Arabi
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love. — Muhammad Ali
Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved. — Jean Vanier
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. — C. S. Lewis
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
I follow the Way of Love,
and where Love's caravan takes its path,
there is my religion, my faith. — Ibn Arabi
My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims. It is both the tables of the Torah and the Koran. It professes the religion of Love wherever its caravans are heading. Love is my law. Love is my faith. — Ibn Arabi
Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else. — Mother Teresa
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. — Nelson Mandela
Spiritual Love Quotes
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. — Rumi
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. — Dalai Lama
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
There is only one caste... the caste of humanity. There is only one religion... the religion of love. There is only one language... the language of the heart. — Sathya Sai Baba
I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union... I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden. — Ibn Arabi
There is no difficulty that enough LOVE will not conquer, no disease that enough LOVE will not heal, no door that enough LOVE will not open, no gulf that enough LOVE will not bridge, no wall that enough LOVE will not throw down, no sin that enough LOVE will not redeem. — Emmet Fox
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy. — Hafez
There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey...Love — Sathya Sai Baba
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance. — Viktor E. Frankl
The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other. — Dante Alighieri
Divine Love Quotes
Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love. — Swami Vivekananda
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity. — Anne Lamott
Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve. — Sivananda
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin. — Aimee Semple McPherson
The most holy and necessary practice in our spiritual life is the presence of God. That means finding constant pleasure in His divine company, speaking humbly and lovingly with him in all seasons, at every moment, without limiting the conversation in any way. — Brother Lawrence
The greatest romance is with the Infinite.
You have no idea how beautiful life can be.
When you suddenly find God everywhere,
when He comes and talks to you and guides you,
the romance of divine love has begun. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love. — Sri Yukteswar Giri
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. — Francis of Assisi
God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies. Never ask for tomorrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present help; and if you wait, never doubting, you will have all you need every moment. — Mary Baker Eddy
Devoted Love Quotes
True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding. — Ellen G. White
A Mother's love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away — Helen Steiner Rice
Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem. — Walt Whitman
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church. — Edith Stein
Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others. — Andy Stanley
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God; and esteeming, and loving, and serving, and seeking Him, before all the pleasures and prosperity of the flesh. — Richard Baxter
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. — Mitch Albom
He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd. — Francis Chan
Love And Marriage Quotes
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. — Leo Tolstoy
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. — Robert Fulghum
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. — Albert Einstein
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart — Leo Buscaglia
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. — Nhat Hanh
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho
My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky — Nizar Qabbani
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde
Meaning Of Love Quotes
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything. — Bill Russell
All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully. — Ignatius of Loyola
We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more. — Saint Joseph
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone. — Neil Gaiman
The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the newborn , knowledge and confidence for the young mother, a voice for those too weak to speak, and so on. — Virginia Henderson
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. — Erich Fromm
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
In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love. — Cesar Chavez
Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough. — Elif Safak
Love Relationship Quotes
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. — Jean Piaget
You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? — Bob Marley
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. — Unknown Author
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. — Oscar Wilde
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. — Frank Lloyd Wright
To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving. — Mother Teresa
A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long. — Jeph Jacques
I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas
There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them. — Jo Walton
Religious Faith Quotes
Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer. — John Calvin
The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going. — Reinhard Bonnke
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. — Oscar Wilde
The voice you believe will determine the future you experience — Steven Furtick
Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience. — Steven Furtick
Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. — Rose of Lima
I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him or have forgotten Him. — Frances Xavier Cabrini
We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives. — Solanus Casey
The pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom. — Abraham Isaac Kook
Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason and intuition that can not be defined but is only to be experienced. Evil and error are not ultimate. There is no Hell, for that means there is a place where God is not, and there are sins which exceed his love. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Love Poetry Quotes
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky. — Unknown Author
We were together. I forget the rest. — Walt Whitman
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything. — David Bowie
Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy. — Nizar Qabbani
What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off peal of bells at dusk! Music comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart: it is Love! Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow! — Sergei Rachmaninoff
To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown. — Robert Bly
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. — Emily Dickinson
I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself? — Walt Whitman
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love — Leonard Cohen
Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me. — John Keats
Christian Love Quotes
A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps. — Saint Augustine
If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours. — Ray Comfort
Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God. — John Calvin
Loving one another with the charity of Christ, let the love you have in your hearts be shown outwardly in your deeds so that compelled by such an example, the sisters may also grow in the love of God and charity for one another. — Clare of Assisi
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. — Saint Augustine
Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world. Let us not tire of preaching love. Though we see that waves of violence succeed in drowning the fire of Christian love, love must win out; it is the only thing that can. — Oscar Romero
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. — Max Lucado
Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes. — Billy Graham
Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer. — Charles Grandison Finney
Jesus will always move away from religious drama and toward the needs of people who are hurting. Jesus will always go out of his way to find and minister to people who others will go out of their way to avoid. I love him for that. — Steven Furtick
If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and Religious today... The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone... we must be compassionate! — Josephine Bakhita
Love of Allah is the power of the heart, the sustenance of the heart, the light of the heart. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened. — Charles Spurgeon
Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles. — Abdu'l-Bahá
We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us. — R. C. Sproul
To be a Baha'i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood. — Abdu'l-Bahá
I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be. — John Shelby Spong
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle. — Josemaria Escriva
My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him. — Billy Graham
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. — Bernard of Clairvaux
Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children. — Cory Booker
Yes, God wants you to do signs and wonders. But the love of God manifested through you is what people really need. So you first must see His face. You must become so close to His very heartbeat that you can feel what others feel. — Heidi Baker
The heart of God loves a persevering worshipper who, though overwhelmed by many troubles, is overwhelmed even more by the beauty of God. — Matt Redman
Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. — C. S. Lewis
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
Try to treat with equal love all the people with whom you have relations. Thus the abyss between 'myself' and 'yourself' will be filled in, which is the goal of all religious worship. — Sri Anandamayi Ma
If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love. — Gemma Galgani
God has more for you in your future than you could ever dream of in your present and he's already seen you in it. — Rod Parsley
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. — Dalai Lama
Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow. — Je Tsongkhapa
There's not a single fear, thought, feeling or need that's too big or too small for Jesus. He wants you to tell Him what's on your heart. — Jeremy Camp
A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs. — Calvin Miller
We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell. — Karl Popper
Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri
To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect. — Oren Arnold
God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering. — Hans Kung
If I have to change my religious beliefs, I would not marry the person that I love because the first person that I love is God, who created me. And I have my faith and my principles and this is what makes me who I am. And if that person loves me, he should love my God too. — Shamcey Supsup
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