The quotes, and the authors below, are those who inspire John McArthur, R.C.Sproul and John Piper, among millions of others who are familiar with the great Puritans.

If you’re a Christian make it your goal to read each of these authors,
You will grow and mature in Christ if you do.
Fuel for the soul, love to spread the kingdom.


While I live, I'll love; and while I breathe, I'll bless.
—Charles Spurgeon

The very nature of God is love. If it should be enquired what God is, it might be answered that He is an infinite and incomprehensible fountain of love.
—Jonathan Edwards

The single desire that dominated my search for delight was simply to love and to be loved.
—Augustine

To love, and be beloved, this is heaven.
—Archibald Alexander

There is no father like God for love. You cannot love your own soul so entirely as he loves you.
—Thomas Watson

The love of Christ is astonishing. It is unparalleled. It surpasses knowledge.
—James Smith

Man’s heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God’s love toward us.
—Martin Luther

God is love itself, and the infinite fountain and ocean of it.
—Jonathan Edwards

We must not think to bring love to God, but we must fetch love from God.
We must light our candle at his fire.
Think of his love to us, and beg the Spirit of love from him;
love is a fruit of the Spirit.
—Richard Sibbes

My God, spiritualize my affection! Give me to know what it is to have the intense and passionate love of Christ.
—Thomas Chalmers

Nothing can provoke love more than to know that one is loved.
—Thomas Aquinas

Precious Lord! continue to surprise my soul with the tokens of thy love.
—Robert Hawker

Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is,
which causes me in the least to doubt of the love of God;
and to direct all my forces against it.
—Jonathan Edwards (age 19)

All our doubting’s are nothing but so many questionings of his love.
—John Owen

Nay, I will read thy book, and never move
Till I have found therein thy love.
—George Herbert

Let us labor to grow more in the assurance of God's love, and all the evidences of it.
Let us dwell long in the meditation of these things.
—Richard Sibbes