Saint Padre Pio seemed to think the greater God’s love for you, the more you will share in His cross and sufferings. This season of singleness this can be a cross of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. But God can lift the crosses of our lives, if we ask Him. We have to seek His will, not our own. He is beside you in this season, and He has a burning love for you. Here are 35 quotes on God’s love for you as Catholic singles:
1.”He loved us not because we are lovable but because He is love.” C. S. Lewis
2. “I have loved you with an everlasting love.” Jeremiah 31:3
3. “A friend loves at all times.” Proverbs 17:17
4. “Though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins or our indifference; and therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins at whatever cost to us, and at whatever cost to Him.” C.S. Lewis
5. “God is love.” Saint John the Evangelist
6. “The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.” Saint Pope John Paul II
7. “My beloved is mine.” Song of Solomon 8:3
8. “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
9. “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good but that God will make us good because He loves us.” C.S. Lewis
10. “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:13
11.”Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” 1 John 4:7-8
12. “We love because he first loved us.” 1 John 4:19
13. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16
14. “Give thanks to the God of heaven, for His steadfast love endures forever.” Psalm 136: 26
15. “You are precious to me and I love you.” Isaiah 43:4
16. “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.” 1 John 3:1
17. “God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.” C.S. Lewis
18. “…that you might be rooted and grounded in love…” Saint Paul
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19. “Love never fails.” Saint Paul
20. “The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love.” C. S. Lewis
21. “For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.” Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
22.”When one loves, one does not calculate.” Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
23. “I say nothing to him I love him.” Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
24. “What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.” Saint Pope John Paul II
25. “Genuine love … is demanding. But its beauty lies precisely in the demands it makes. Only those able to make demands on themselves in the name of love can then demand love from others.” Saint Pope John Paul II
26. “There is no place for selfishness and no place for fear! Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice.” Saint Pope John Paul II
27. “When I have learned to love better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.” C.S. Lewis
28. “We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures; we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of his Son.” Saint Pope John Paul II
29. “Do not fear the cross.” Saint Stanislaus Kostka
30. “You perceive it in the depths of your heart: all that is good on earth, all professional success, even the human love that you dream of, can never fully satisfy your deepest and most intimate desires. Only an encounter with Jesus can give full meaning to your lives.” Saint Pope John Paul II
31. “The most beautiful and stirring adventure that can happen to you is the personal meeting with Jesus, who is the only one who gives real meaning to our lives.” Saint Pope John Paul II
32. “It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.” Saint Pope John Paul II
33.”Today Christ is asking each of you the same question: do you love Me? He is not asking you whether you know how to speak to crowds, whether you can direct an organization or manage an estate. He is asking you to love Him. All the rest will ensue.” Saint Pope John Paul II
34.”Don’t be daunted by the cross. The surest test of love consists in suffering for the loved one, and if God suffered so much for love, the pain we suffer for Him becomes as lovable as love itself.” Saint Padre Pio
35.”The greater your sufferings, the greater God’s love for you.” Saint Padre Pio
