75 Quotes About Divine-Love

Courage is the starting point of everything good. To love another is to automatically feed the fire of courage. We cannot be humiliated when we are fighting for someone or something we love. We will not give up when we are fighting for loved ones. As we evolve, our loved ones extend out from our family to include all of humanity. Courage and confidence will grow over the years with practice and self-awareness. We are never alone. God will help us. Such is the courage which gains respect from others. More importantly, we gain respect for ourselves. . Donna Goddard

In reality, the damned are in the same place as the saved–in reality! But they hate it; it is their Hell. The saved love it, and it is their Heaven. It is like two people sitting side by side at an opera or a rock concert: the very thing that is Heaven to one is Hell to the other. Dostoyevski says, 'We are all in paradise, but we won’t see it'… Hell is not literally the 'wrath of God.' The love of God is an objective fact; the 'wrath of God' is a human projection of our own wrath upon God, as the Lady Julian saw–a disastrous misinterpretation of God’s love as wrath. God really says to all His creatures, 'I know you and I love you' but they hear Him saying, 'I never knew you; depart from me.' It is like angry children misinterpreting their loving parents’ affectionate advances as threats. They project their own hate onto their parents’ love and experience love as an enemy–which it is: an enemy to their egotistic defenses against joy… Since God is love, since love is the essence of the divine life, the consequence of loss of this life is loss of love.. Though the damned do not love God, God loves them, and this is their torture. The very fires of Hell are made of the love of God! Love received by one who only wants to hate and fight thwarts his deepest want and is therefore torture. If God could stop loving the damned, Hell would cease to be pure torture. If the sun could stop shining, lovers of the dark would no longer be tortured by it. But the sun could sooner cease to shine than God cease to be God..The lovelessness of the damned blinds them to the light of glory in which they stand, the glory of God’s fire. God is in the fire that to them is Hell. God is in Hell ('If I make my bed in Hell, Thou art there' [Ps 139:8]) but the damned do not know Him. . Peter Kreeft

Everybody knows basically what is right and what is wrong. Everybody knows better than to hate others. In fact, most people teach against it, and yet we still see it on the daily. But why do you think that is? It is because the problem was never really humans not loving humans enough; the problem was humans not loving righteousness enough. We must empty our own love for the world so that it can be replaced by the love of Christ; only then will we begin to love people as Christ loves people, as He always intended. Criss Jami

Some modern theologians have, quite rightly, protested against an excessively moralistic interpretation of Christianity. The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claims of moral duty. I do not deny it: But this conception, like that of corporate guilt, is very easily used as an evasion of the real issue. God may be more than moral goodness: He is not less. The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended, but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims upon them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely face the fact of their failure. C.s. Lewis

The first condition, then, of what is called a selfish love among men is lacking with God. He has no natural necessities, no passion, to compete with His wish for the beloved's welfare; or if there is in Him something which we have to imagine after the analogy of a passion, a want it is there by His own will and for our sakes. And the second condition is lacking too. The real interests of a child may differ from that which his father's affection instinctively demands, because the child is a separate being from the father with a nature which has its own needs and does not exist solely for the father nor find its whole perfection in being loved by him and which the father does not fully understand. But creatures are not thus separate from their Creator, nor can He misunderstand them. The place for which He designs them in His scheme of things is the place they are made for. When they reach it their nature is fulfilled and their happiness attained: a broken bone in the universe has been set, the anguish is over. When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy. Those Divine demands which sound to our natural ears most like those of a despot and least like those of a lover, in fact marshal us where we should want to go, if we knew what we wanted. He demands our worship, our obedience, our prostration. . C.s. Lewis

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word 'love', and look on things as a man were the centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. 'Thou hast created all things, and for they pleasure they are and were created.' (Rev. 4:11) We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the Divine love may rest 'well pleased.' To ask that God's love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God:. .What we would here and now call our 'happiness' is not the end God chiefly has in view: but when we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall, in fact, be happy. C.s. Lewis

[But] we inherit a whole system of desires which do not necessarily contribute God's will but which, after centuries of usurped autonomy steadfastly ignore it. If the thing we like doing is, in fact, the thing God wants us to do, yet that is not our reason for doing it; it remains a mere happy coincidence. We cannot therefore know that we are acting at all, or primarily, for God's sake, unless the material of the action is contrary to our inclination or (in other words) painful and what we cannot know that we are choosing, we cannot choose. The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination. How impossible it is to enact the surrender of the self by doing what we like.. C.s. Lewis

... the possibility of pain is inherent in the very existence of a world where souls can meet. C.s. Lewis

God's will is determined by His wisdom which always perceives, and His goodness which always embraces the intrinsically good. But when we have said that God commands thing only because they are good, we must add that one of the things intrinsically good is that rational creatures should freely surrender themselves to their Creator in obedience. The content of our obedience - the thing we are commanded to do -- will always be something intrinsically good, something we ought to do even if (by an impossible supposition_ God had not commanded it. But in addition to the content, the mere obeying is also intrinsically good, for, in obeying a rational creature consciously enacts its creaturely role, reverses the act by which we fill, treads Adam's dance backward, and returns. . C.s. Lewis

Do we suppose that they can do Him any good or fear, like the chorus in MIlton, that human irreverence can bring about. His glory's diminution? A man can no more diminish God's glory be refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word darkness on the walls of his cell. But God wills our good and our good is to love Him (with that responsive love proper to creatives) and to love Hi we must know Him: and if we know Him, we shall in fact fall on our faces. If we do not, that only shows that what we are trying to love is nearest approximation to God which our thought and fantasy can attain. Yet the call is not only to prostration and awe; it is to a reflection of the Divine live, a creaturely participation in the Divine attributes which is far beyond our present desires. We are bidden to put on Christ, to become like God. That is, whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little. C.s. Lewis

Yet perhaps even this view falls short of the truth. It is not simply that God has arbitrarily made us such that He is our only good. Rather, God is the only good of all creatures: and by necessity each must find its good in that kind and degree of the fruition of God which is proper to its nature. The kind and degree may vary with the creature's nature: but that there ever could be any other good is an atheistic dream.. George Macdonald.. represents God as saying to men, 'You must be strong with my strength and blessed with my blessedness for I have no other to give you.' That is the whole conclusion of the matter. God gives what He has, not what He has not: He gives the happiness that there is, not the happiness that is not. To be God - to be like God and to share His goodness in creaturely response - to be miserable - these are the only three alternatives. If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows - the only food that any possible universe can ever grow - then we must starve eternally. C.s. Lewis

Love is divine force. Lailah Gifty Akita

A creative mind is a spark of divinity. Lailah Gifty Akita

Never allow anyone to break your bond of love. Lailah Gifty Akita

All that I am is by the grace of God. Lailah Gifty Akita

I loved him beyond madness being one soul one vein one body , which he never deserved Seema Gupta

Love is where unseen and unsaid things merge with each otherwhere silence is thirsty of happenings Seema Gupta

My Love tears me between the addiction of patience and urge of infinite desire Seema Gupta

Love is your addiction to an eternal longing for someone... A thirst which one cannot relinquish Seema Gupta

Love is breathing each other with all madness Seema Gupta

I was in love when I felt your soul speaks in my Body Seema Gupta

I would prefer to live with bleeding heart where desire see darkness of uncertainty because I need to know the existence of love Seema Gupta

For love I have invested my life with no return Seema Gupta

For your love I have uprooted all my desires, I am no more demanding... Seema Gupta

Love is floating somewhere in the beautiful horizon with an equal wave length with same frequency of intense feelings Seema Gupta

Love has turned to be a sad tragedy of my life even we both are alive Seema Gupta

For me love is when I don't limit you, I put you on the rainbows......beyond eternity of time and destiny Seema Gupta

He could not fit in my imagination and I was not fit for his Real and the conflict between imagination and real sadly made us apart Seema Gupta

If You Love me.-- Your love drove metowards the live volcanowhere i will be burnt and destroyed On your fake promises I made castles on air Oh! ! ! I was throwingsome pearls in desertwhere oasis has value Pearls have no value just remember I am an oceanyou are only a boat for a boat to explore oceanlove need to be daring, desperate If You love me Plant a seed of truthmake me part of your missing Just If you Love me..... Seema Gupta

He left me millions of time, but I am holding him with every breath with same madness Seema Gupta

Desire For Thee"My desire to love theeis just like a tree, must have one rootbut several branches of fruit I want to make you feel as if you are horizon i steal you are as free as wind where my love flows in swingi see thee in glaze shadow around a graceful presence on passion groundthat is "THEE" you spark everywhere Everywhere am far and near. Seema Gupta

Moments without you made me realize How Idle I am in my life Seema Gupta

Love is when Looking at a glance at you I found laughter in my eyes, Thoughts turns into jewels Where luster of your aura dwells Seema Gupta

Talking to the Divine is possible when you have your knowledge, thoughts, mind & body in line, remembering God with every breath. In Sufism, it is called ‘Sama’. But in reality, it should be called ‘Self realization’, I think. Taranpreet Singh

The grace of birth is a divine. Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is when unknowingly I am moving to a world of no return, Where my desire and your fragrance together burnall your thoughts in canvas of my mind and soulturns in to a masterpiece as my life's aim and goal looks I am taken over and over away by you showering in me as a rain of you and only you Seema Gupta

Divine love"" Don't Leave me, ONLYTo carry my body on my two feet I need you Seema Gupta

Revealing of origin , evidence the existence of hidden pearls in mind which is addicted to imagine and thought as well. Seema Gupta

Where the Divine and the Human Meet" shows how important it is to meet the world with the creativity of an artist, particularly in these uncertain times: "What do we do with chaos? Creativity has an answer. We are told by those who have studied the processes of nature that creativity happens at the border between chaos and order. Chaos is a prelude to creativity. We need to learn, as every artist needs to learn, to live with chaos and indeed to dance with it as we listen to it and attempt some ordering. Artists wrestle with chaos, take it apart, deconstruct and reconstruct from it. Accept the challenge to convert chaos into some kind of order, respecting the timing of it all, not pushing beyond what is possible–combining holy patience with holy impatience--that is the role of the artist. It is each of our roles as we launch the twenty-first century because we are all called to be artists in our own way. We were all artists as children. We need to study the chaos around us in order to turn it into something beautiful. Something sustainable. Something that remains". Matthew Fox

A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, ‘O’ God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee’? Unknown

The world we live in might not be free from pain, but you have the ability to create for yourself a world free from struggle. Sheila Applegate

The desire for connection with the Divine and our formless inner self is at the foundation of all desire for human connection. Donna Goddard

Daily seek the divine presence of God. Lailah Gifty Akita

The love of God knows no end. Lord may your boundless and unfailing love surround us. Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is God.Love is divine. Love is an act of God. Lailah Gifty Akita

World is a divine play. At the beginning and at the end, we are the same. Amit Ray

We are inspired by divine power to write. Lailah Gifty Akita

When Christianity says that God loves man it means that God LOVES man: not that He has some 'disinterested'; because really indifferent, concern for our welfare, but that in awful and surprising truth, we are the objects of His love. You asked for a loving God: you have one. The great spirit you so lightly invoked, the 'lord of terrible aspect', is present: not a senile benevolence that drowsily wishes you to be happy in your own way, not the cold philanthropy of a conscientious magistrate, nor the care of a host who feels responsible for the comfort of his guests, but the consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds... How this should be, I do not know: it passes reason to explain why any creatures, not to say creatures such as we should have a value so prodigious in their Creator's eyes. It is certainly a burden of glory, not only beyond our deserts but also, except in rare moments of grace, beyond our desiring; we are inclined, like the maidens in the old play, to deprecate the love of Zeus. C.s. Lewis

The power of desire is a divine. Desire to live by faith. Lailah Gifty Akita

All divine power is within you to accomplish great things. Lailah Gifty Akita

Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God. Unknown

Love is divine act that can transform and bring a change of heart. Lailah Gifty Akita

The spiritual freedom we seek cannot be found by grasping at, retreating to, or protecting our perceived safe spaces. Our freedom lies in remaining open continuously, not only to Life's changes but also to the Divine Light within us and others. Peter Santos

When Ego is in control it judges and punishes. But love forgives and heals. Surrendering, is one of the most powerful choices one can make. The doors of love only open for the person who is prepared to let his ego go. To surrender one's ego for someone else is love; to surrender one's ego for all is divine love. Angie Karan

Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached. Bertrand Russell

When my problems seem overwhelming and impossible to solve, I hold fast to these facts: God is real, He is right, and He cares. Richelle E. Goodrich

Let your soul bloom like a flower with the beauty and fragrance of divine love. Debasish Mridha

I have being saved by the grace of God.I am a child of God.The Lord's great favour and mighty power is upon me. Lailah Gifty Akita

If we are serious about dreaming our awakening into being and creating a peaceful, loving earth in which the heart, spirit and soul are the only true leaders, we must continue to keep our focus on thoughts of unity and all that truly brings us together. Diane Hall

BLESSINGS TO ALL~ Divine Love, flowing through US, blesses and multiplies all that WE are, all that WE have, all that WE give and all that WE receive Angie Karan

Divine love is limitless and the source of miracles. Leta B.

A moment of care carries us away! The fragrance of forgiveness elevates us Imperfections are essentially universal Divine love drives our desire. Balroop Singh

Death is like giving birth. Birth can be painful. Sometimes women die from giving birth. However, when the baby is born, all that pain (that was endured) vanishes in an instant. Love for that tiny baby makes one forget the pain, the fear. And as I’ve said before, love between mother and child is the highest experience, the closest to divine love. You might wonder about the parallel I’m making between birth and death. But I say to you, the fear and pain accompanying an awful death is over quickly. Beyond that portal one is suddenly in the light, in oneness and bliss… Just as a woman heals rapidly after childbirth and then is able to fall in love with her baby, those who pass over also are able to fall in love with a new life."- Kuan Yin (From "Oracle of Compassion: the Living Word of Kuan Yin . Hope Bradford

We never stopped being each other. Alicen Grey