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No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Why must we love the Lord? Because as we do so, we become refined, pure, and holy.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

— Plato

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

— William Barclay

Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.

— Marianne Williamson

Whether we are famous or not, we all need God. We also need other people.

— Chuck Norris

God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.

— Yolanda Adams

We are so accustomed to love on a human level that we find loving God for Himself either impossible or beyond our capabilities. We tend to love those who appeal to us, render us a service, or are good to us. In the degree they perform these various services, we love them.

— Mother Angelica

I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.

— Saint Ignatius

✗Opposing Perspectives

You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.

— Saint Bernard