William Adams: Quotes about love

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

William Adams: 20 quotes0 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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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