How does our love of God grow? If we spend time with God, we come to know Him better. We learn from our experiences. Our faith becomes stronger as we let Him lead us.
One of the fruits if the spirit us love. The Holy Spirit inflames our heart with love. Our doubts disappear and we are led by the Spirit of Love.
The Saints were on fire with the love of God. The following quotes enlighten us about their journey.
1. All things are possible for him who Believes, more to him who hopes, even more to him who loves.
2. Refuse God nothing…We must do all through love.
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3. The proof of love is in the works. Where live exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.
4. I have come to know only love is if any value; love is greatness. Nothing, no works can compare with a single act of pure love of God.
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5. Martyrdom is the heroic act of love.
St. Just Bretenie’res Korean Martyr
5. God loves each one of us as if there were only one of us.
6. It is only by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If then, we possess charity, we possess God, for God is charity.
7. I love You, not because You have the power to give heaven or hell, but simply because You are You…my kin and my God.
St. Francis Xavier
8. Where there is no love, put love and you will find love.
9. Faith lifts the staggering soul on one side; Hope supports it on the other; Experience says it must be and Love says…Let it be.
10. Remember, that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing of what you have received, but only what you have given; a heart full, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.
11. Desire more and more to grow in the love of God. Holy desires are like wings which transport the soul to heaven.
Bl. Angel Trustzkowska
12. Faith and Love are like the blind man’s guides. They will lead you along a path unknown to you, to the place where God is hidden.
St. John of the Cross
13. Beneath the cross one learns to love.
14. Heaven is full of love but Hell is full of loneliness.
St. Teresa of Calcutta
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15. Darkness can only be scattered by light. Hatred can only be conquered by Love.
16. May my life be a continual prayer, a long act of love.
17. Kindness is my only guiding star. In its light, I sail a straight route. I have my motto written on my soul: ” To Live in Love.”
18. Only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest things out of great love. Love and always love.
19. Truly it us a blessed thing to Love on earth as we hope to live in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure forever there.
20. Prayer is an act of Love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts us from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to Love.
21. Faith gives Love it’s strength; Love gives Faith it’s beauty.
22. Ponder the fact that you were loved before you ever loved. For God looked within Himself and fell in love with the beauty of His creature and so created us.
23. As I adore You, I ask for a love that knows no limits, a love like a flame that consumes me. O Christ, O Lord, one gift I ask if you: Love for You ever increasing, ever growing, ever active on Your behalf.
24. It is not enough to love the young. They mustknow they are loved.
25. O Sacred Heart of Jesus, fountain of eternal life, Your Heart is a glowing furnace of Love. You are my refuge and my sanctuary. O my adorable and loving Savior, consume my heart with the burning fire with which Yours is inflamed. Pour down on my soul those graces which flow from Your Love. Let my heart be united with Yours. Let my will be conformed to Yours in all things. May Your Will be the rule of all my desires and actions.
