William Adams: Quotes about love

William Adams was Fellow and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford. Explore interesting quotes on love.

William Adams: 20 quotes 0 likes

“The only qualification for knowing Divine things is to love them; to know Christ and to see the light of His revelation, we have only to aspire after a filial temper.”

William Adams

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 230.

Love , Light , Christ

“But how shall this love be demonstrated? After what method shall it be expressed? Not by secret musings alone; not by the chanting of religious sonnets alone; not by grateful remembrances of Him — at His table only — but by deeds of love towards those who in a real sense represent Him, because partakers of that nature, our common humanity, which He condescended to assume.”

William Adams

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 396.

Love , Secret , Nature , Sense

“Do you ask why Mary Magdalene was the one chosen to whom first of all Christ should show Himself after the resurrection? This we know — she trusted in Him, and she loved Him; she waited at His sepulchre; she sought, she looked, she wept; and if we would have Christ reveal Himself to us, we, too, must seek and wait and long and trust and love.”

William Adams

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 589.

Love , Waiting , Christ

“Eternal life does not depend upon our perfection; but because it does depend upon the grace of Christ and the love of the Spirit, that love shall prompt us to emulate perfection.”

William Adams

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 210.

Love , Life , Christ , Dependency