1 John 4:16 (WEB)
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
Catechism · 3
The Sacrament of Matrimony
“For man is created in the image and likeness of God who is himself love.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 1:27; 1 Jn 4:8, 16.
I Believe in God
“But St. John goes even further when he affirms that "God is love":” — Catechism footnote: l Jn 4:8, 16
"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"
"God is Love" and love is his first gift, containing all others. "God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."
Fathers and councils · 22
Augustine of Hippo
“To this is added another testimony which the Apostle John offers, when he says, “For God is love.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16
Read the whole comment“Ask John: “God is love;” let us bless His holy Name, and rejoice in God by rejoicing in love.” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16.
Read the whole comment“For many confess in words, but in deeds deny: “And we have known and believed the love which God hath in us.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16.
Read the whole comment“I know not whether charity could be more magnificently commended to us, than that it should be said, “Charity is God.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16.
Read the whole comment“For, as the Divine utterances testify, “God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God dwelleth in him.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16
Read the whole comment“Even as now our wish is to see whether the Holy Spirit is properly that love which is most excellent which if He is not, either the Father is love, or the Son, or the Trinity itself; since we cannot withstand the most certain faith and weighty authority of Scripture, saying, “God is love.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16
Read the whole comment“And this is also a substance, since God is a substance, and “God is love,” as it is written.” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16
Read the whole comment“Well, but you will say, I see love, and, as far as I am able, I gaze upon it with my mind, and I believe the Scripture, saying, that “God is love; and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God;” but when I see love, I do not see in it the Trinity.” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16
Read the whole comment“…to understand, that not only incorporeal but also unchangeable nature which is God; and by means, too, of love, which in the Holy Scriptures is called God, by which, first of all, those who have understanding begin also, however feebly, to discern the Trinity, to wit, one that loves, and that which is loved, and…” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16
Read the whole comment“But when we came to treat of love, which in the Holy Scriptures is called God, then a trinity began to dawn upon us a little, i.e. one that loves, and that which is loved, and love.” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16
Read the whole comment“But they have said, “God is love;” so that it is uncertain and remains to be inquired whether God the Father is love, or God the Son, or God the Holy Ghost, or the Trinity itself which is God.” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16
Read the whole comment“For it is from these that we hear this voice: The end of the commandment is charity, and God is love.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. i. 5; 1 John iv. 16
Read the whole comment“And, that you may not suppose yourself to be wholly estranged from seeing God, he saith, “God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X X.7Conference X
“…“that they all may be one as Thou, Father, in Me and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us,” when that perfect love of God, wherewith “He first loved us” has passed into the feelings of our heart as well, by the fulfilment of this prayer of the Lord which we believe cannot possibly be ineffectual.” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XVI.13Conference XVI
“Finally so highly is the virtue of love extolled that the blessed Apostle John declares that it not only belongs to God but that it is God, saying: “God is love: he therefore that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Mark
“Or else, that seed is very small in fear, but great when it has grown into charity, which is greater than all herbs: for “God is love,” [1 John 4:16] whilst “all flesh is grass.” [Isa 40:6] But the boughs which it puts forth are those of mercy and compassion, since under its shade the poor of…” — the author cites it
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Cyprian of Carthage
“The word of the blessed Apostle John is: “God,” saith he, “is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God dwelleth in him.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16.
Read the whole comment“Also in the Epistle of John: “God is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16.
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Clement of Alexandria
“But John himself also in this same Epistle says, “God is love:” pointing out the excellences of God, that He is kind and merciful; and because He is light, makes men righteous, according to the advancement of the soul, through charity.” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16.
Read the whole comment“And if “God be love,” piety also is love: “there is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16, 18.
Read the whole comment““God,” then, being good, “is love,” it is said.” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 8, 16.
Read the whole comment“And “God,” who is known to those who love, “is love,” as “God,” who by instruction is communicated to the faithful, “is faithful;” and we must be allied to Him by divine love: so that by like we may see like, hearing the word of truth guilelessly and purely, as children who obey us.” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 16.
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Cross-references · 24
Cited together in Catechism §1604 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Catechism §1604.
Cited together in Catechism §1604.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity IX.1.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XV.3.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity IX.1.
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 4:30–34 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 121.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity VI.5 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 4:30–34 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 4:30–34 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 4:30–34 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 4:30–34 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 4:30–34 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §733 and 2 other places.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 15.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 15.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XV.3 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.17.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.17.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.17.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.17.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.17.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity VIII.8.