Prayers About Love
Find 49 prayers about Love to guide, comfort, and strengthen your faith.
The Greatest of These Is Love
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:1, 4-8, 13 (BSB)
BiblicalFor God So Loved the World
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
John 3:16-17 (BSB)
BiblicalPerfect Love Casts Out Fear
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love. We love because He first loved us.
1 John 4:18-19 (BSB)
BiblicalPrayer to Know the Love of Christ
I pray that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:16-19 (BSB)
BiblicalLove Is as Strong as Death
Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all. Mighty waters cannot extinguish love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned.
Song of Solomon 8:6-7 (BSB)
BiblicalWith You Is the Fountain of Life
Your loving devotion, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O Lord, You preserve man and beast. How precious is Your loving devotion, O God! The children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights. For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.
Psalm 36:5-9 (BSB)
BiblicalThe Lord Your God Is in Your Midst
The Lord your God is in your midst, a Mighty One who saves. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will exult over you with loud singing.
Zephaniah 3:17 (BSB)
BiblicalNothing Can Separate Us from God's Love
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:35, 37-39 (BSB)
BiblicalThe Greatest Commandment
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
Matthew 22:37-40 (BSB)
BiblicalPrayer That Your Love May Abound
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Philippians 1:9-11 (BSB)
BiblicalMay the Lord Make Your Love Increase and Overflow
Now may our God and Father Himself and our Lord Jesus clear the way for us to come to you. May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. May He strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all His holy ones.
1 Thessalonians 3:11-13 (BSB)
BiblicalLate Have I Loved You
Late have I loved You, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved You! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for You. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which You created. You were with me, but I was not with You. Created things kept me from You; yet if they had not been in You they would have not been at all. You called, You shouted, and You broke through my deafness. You flashed, You shone, and You dispelled my blindness. You breathed Your fragrance on me; I drew in breath and now I pant for You. I have tasted You, now I hunger and thirst for more. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.
St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
SaintO Beauty Ever Ancient, Ever New
Too late have I loved You, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, too late have I loved You! And behold, You were within, and I was without. You were with me, and I was not with You. You called and cried to me and broke open my deafness; You sent forth Your beams and shone upon me and chased away my blindness. Let me know You, O Lord, my Knower; let me know You even as I am known.
St. Augustine, Confessions (d. 430)
SaintPrayer of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
O my God, I offer You all my actions of this day for the intentions and for the glory of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I desire to sanctify every beat of my heart, my every thought, my simplest works, by uniting them to His infinite merits; and I wish to make reparation for my sins by casting them into the furnace of His merciful love. O my God, I ask of You for myself and for those whom I hold dear, the grace to fulfill perfectly Your holy will, to accept for love of You the joys and sorrows of this passing life, so that we may one day be united together in heaven for all eternity. Amen.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux (d. 1897)
SaintPrayer for the Fire of Love
Eternal God, eternal Trinity, You have made the Blood of Christ so precious through His sharing in Your divine nature. You are a mystery as deep as the sea; the more I search, the more I find, and the more I find, the more I search for You. But I can never be satisfied; what I receive will ever leave me desiring more. When You fill my soul I have an ever-greater hunger, and I grow more famished for Your light.
St. Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue (d. 1380)
SaintO Jesus, Be to Me
O Jesus, be to me not a Judge, but a Savior. O Jesus, may I be to You not a stranger, but a friend. O Jesus, make me patient in suffering, humble in prosperity, and thankful in all things. O good Jesus, grant me grace to cling to You more and more, and to never be separated from You. May I live for You, die for You, and rest in You forever.
Based on St. Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153)
SaintThe Living Flame of Love
O Living Flame of Love, that tenderly wounds my soul in its deepest center! Since You are not oppressive, perfect me now if it be Your will. Break the web of this sweet encounter. O gentle hand! O delicate touch, that tastes of eternal life and pays every debt! In slaying, You have changed death to life.
St. John of the Cross, Living Flame of Love (d. 1591)
SaintRadiating Christ
Dear Jesus, help me to spread Your fragrance everywhere I go. Flood my soul with Your spirit and life. Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly that my life may only be a radiance of Yours. Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul. Let them look up and see no longer me but only Jesus. Stay with me and then I will begin to shine as You shine, so to shine as to be a light to others.
Attributed to Blessed John Henry Newman (d. 1890, public domain)
SaintPrayer for Rest in God
You have made us for Yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You. Grant us, Lord, to know what we ought to know, to love what we ought to love, to praise what delights You most, to value what is precious in Your sight, to hate what is offensive to You. Do not allow us to judge according to the sight of our eyes, nor to pass sentence according to the hearing of the ears of ignorant men; but to discern with a true judgment between things visible and spiritual, and above all things, always to inquire what is the good pleasure of Your will.
St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions and other writings
SaintI Love You, O Lord, My Strength
I love You, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I called on the Lord, who is worthy of praise, and I was saved from my enemies. He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters. He brought me out into a broad place; He rescued me because He delighted in me.
Psalm 18:1-3, 16, 19 (BSB)
BiblicalI Love the Lord, for He Heard My Voice
I love the Lord, for He heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. Because He inclined His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live. The cords of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow. Then I called on the name of the Lord: 'O Lord, save me!' The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion. The Lord protects the simple; when I was brought low, He saved me. Return to your rest, O my soul, for the Lord has been good to you. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.
Psalm 116:1-7, 15 (BSB)
BiblicalHis Loving Devotion Endures Forever
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. His loving devotion endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods. His loving devotion endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords. His loving devotion endures forever. To Him who alone does great wonders, His loving devotion endures forever. To Him who made the heavens by His understanding, His loving devotion endures forever. Give thanks to the God of heaven. His loving devotion endures forever.
Psalm 136:1-5, 26 (BSB)
BiblicalI Am Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
O Lord, You have searched me and You know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; You are familiar with all my ways. For You formed my inward parts; You knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
Psalm 139:1-3, 13-16 (BSB)
BiblicalThe High Priestly Prayer of Jesus
Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You. For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him. Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent. I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth. My prayer is not for them alone. I also pray for those who will believe in Me through their message, that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You.
John 17:1-3, 14, 17, 20-21 (BSB)
BiblicalFather, Forgive Them
Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.
Luke 23:34 (BSB)
BiblicalHail Mary
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Traditional Catholic prayer based on Luke 1:28, 42
TraditionalTraditional Nuptial Blessing
God the eternal Father keep you in love with each other, so that the peace of Christ may stay with you and be always in your home. May you be blessed in your children, and may the love that you lavish on them be returned a hundredfold. May the peace of Christ live always in your hearts and in your home. May you have true friends to stand by you, both in joy and in sorrow. May you be ready and willing to help and comfort all who come to you in need. May the blessings promised to the compassionate be yours in abundance.
Traditional Christian nuptial blessing
TraditionalChrist Has No Body
Christ has no body but yours, no hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes with which He looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which He walks to do good. Yours are the hands with which He blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are His body. Christ has no body now but yours, no hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes with which He looks with compassion on this world. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
Attributed to St. Teresa of Avila
SaintTraditional Prayer for Marriage
O God, who has so consecrated the covenant of marriage that in it is represented the spiritual unity between Christ and His Church: Send Your blessing upon these Your servants, that they may so love, honor, and cherish each other in faithfulness and patience, in wisdom and true godliness, that their home may be a haven of blessing and peace. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Traditional marriage blessing (Book of Common Prayer tradition)
TraditionalPrayer of St. Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Traditional prayer attributed to St. Francis of Assisi
TraditionalO God, You Are My God
O God, You are my God; earnestly I seek You. My soul thirsts for You; my body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water. So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory. Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You. I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands. My soul is satisfied as with rich food; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.
Psalm 63:1-5 (BSB)
BiblicalPraise the Lord, All Nations
Praise the Lord, all you nations! Extol Him, all you peoples! For great is His loving devotion toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord!
Psalm 117 (BSB)
BiblicalTraditional Prayer for Friends
God of love, who has given us the gift of friendship, we give You thanks for the companions You have placed in our lives. May we be loyal and true, bearing one another's burdens and sharing one another's joys. Give us the grace to forgive quickly and to love generously. Keep our friendships rooted in You, so that through them we may grow in faith, hope, and love. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Traditional prayer for friends
TraditionalSuscipe of St. Ignatius
Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To You, Lord, I return it. Everything is Yours; do with it what You will. Give me only Your love and Your grace, that is enough for me.
St. Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises
SaintFear Not, for I Have Redeemed You
But now, thus says the Lord, He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: 'Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.'
Isaiah 43:1-3 (BSB)
BiblicalThe Fruit of the Spirit
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.
Galatians 5:22-25 (BSB)
BiblicalRemain in Me
I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing. As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and remain in His love. I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.
John 15:5, 9-11 (BSB)
BiblicalChrist Lives in Me
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Galatians 2:20 (BSB)
BiblicalSoul of Christ
Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Within Your wounds hide me. Separated from You, let me never be. From the evil one protect me. At the hour of my death, call me. And close to You bid me, that with Your saints I may be praising You forever and ever. Amen.
Traditional Catholic prayer (14th century)
TraditionalPrayer Before Holy Communion
Lord, I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed. I believe that You are truly present in this Most Holy Sacrament. I adore You with profound reverence. I ask forgiveness for my sins and the grace to receive You worthily. Grant that this Communion may bring me closer to You and to my neighbor.
Traditional prayer before Communion (based on Matthew 8:8)
TraditionalPrayer of St. John Chrysostom Before Communion
O Lord my God, I know that I am not worthy nor sufficient that You should come under the roof of the house of my soul, for all is desolate and fallen, and You have not with me a fitting place to lay Your head. But as from the heights of Your glory You did humble Yourself, so now bear with my humility. As You deigned to lie in a manger in a cave, so deign also to enter the manger of my unworthy soul and body.
St. John Chrysostom (d. 407)
Church FatherPrayer of St. Bonaventure
Pierce, O most sweet Lord Jesus, my inmost soul with the most joyous and healthful wound of Your love, with true, serene, and most holy apostolic charity, that my soul may ever languish and melt with love and longing for You, that it may yearn for You and faint for Your courts, and long to be dissolved and to be with You. Grant that my soul may hunger after You, the bread of angels, the refreshment of holy souls, our daily and supersubstantial bread.
St. Bonaventure, The Tree of Life (d. 1274)
SaintPrayer of St. Edith Stein
O my God, fill my soul with holy joy, courage, and strength to serve You. Enkindle Your love in me and then walk with me along the next stretch of road before me. I do not see very far ahead, but when I have arrived where the horizon now closes down, a new prospect will open before me, and I shall meet it with peace.
St. Edith Stein (d. 1942)
SaintThe Elixir
Teach me, my God and King, in all things Thee to see, and what I do in anything to do it as for Thee. A man that looks on glass, on it may stay his eye; or if he pleaseth, through it pass, and then the heaven espy. All may of Thee partake: nothing can be so mean, which with this tincture, 'for Thy sake,' will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine: who sweeps a room as for Thy laws makes that and the action fine.
George Herbert, The Temple (d. 1633, public domain)
SaintPraise the Lord, O My Soul
Praise the Lord, O my soul; all that is within me, praise His holy name. Praise the Lord, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds. He forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases. He redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion. He satisfies you with good things; your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Psalm 103:1-5 (BSB)
BiblicalForever I Will Sing of the Loving Devotion of the Lord
Forever I will sing of the loving devotion of the Lord; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations. For I have said, 'Loving devotion is built up forever; in the heavens You establish Your faithfulness.' The heavens praise Your wonders, O Lord, Your faithfulness too, in the assembly of the holy ones. For who in the skies can compare with the Lord? Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord? Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim You, who walk in the light of Your presence, O Lord.
Psalm 89:1-2, 5-6, 15 (BSB)
BiblicalThe Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
2 Corinthians 13:14 (BSB)
BiblicalMay the Lord of Peace Give You Peace
Now may the Lord of peace Himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you.
2 Thessalonians 3:16 (BSB)
BiblicalDivine Mercy Prayer
You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls, and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O Fount of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty Yourself out upon us. Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase Your mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit ourselves to Your holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself.
Diary of Saint Faustina Kowalska (d. 1938, public domain)
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