love of God

Sacred heart's yearning

Love of God has two distinct meanings depending on direction.

It can mean devotion or reverence a person feels toward God: Her love of God sustained her through hardship.

Or it can mean God's love for humanity: The love of God is unconditional.

The phrase also appears in exasperated exclamations: For the love of God, will you please be quiet!

Related

grace · faith · act of faith · reverence · sacred · holy · holy spirit · agape · piety · prayer · spiritual · born again · eternal · eternal life · soul · blessed · mercy · salvation

Categories
Opposites
spiritual orientation toward the divine

love of Godcursing God

Profane speech against deity

blasphemy · apostasy · antitheism · godlessness · impiety

object of ultimate devotion

love of Godlove of money

Obsessive desire for riches

idolatry · self-worship · worldliness · materialism · carnality

theological stance

love of Godatheism

Rejection of deities

godlessness · unbelief · irreligion · secularism · nihilism

Family

love, loves, loved, loving, lovingly, lover, lovers, lovely, loveliness

Familiarity
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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G