Christian Poems, Verses, & Songs for Valentine’s Day
How will you express love to your special person on Valentine’s Day? Most of us give flowers, fancy gifts, or boxes of delight, but why not tuck a Christian Valentine’s Day poem or verse in your card to remind your significant other of Christ’s love?
On this day of love, send a sweet greeting by sharing these messages of Christian love.
Print your own pdf copy of these pages of Valentine poems, verses, and songs by clicking on the link below.
Christian Poems About God’s Love
Far surpassing all romantic love is the great love Jesus Christ displayed when he shed his precious blood to save humanity from sin. This Valentine poetry is the good news my own heart longs to hear.
The Love of Christ Which Passeth Knowledge
By Christina Rosetti
I bore with thee long weary days and nights,
Through many pangs of heart, through many tears;
I bore with thee, thy hardness, coldness, slights,
For three and thirty years.
Who else had dared for thee what I have dared?
I plunged the depth most deep from bliss above;
I not My flesh, I not My spirit spared:
Give thou Me love for love.
For thee I thirsted in the daily drouth,
For thee I trembled in the nightly frost:
Much sweeter thou than honey to My mouth:
Why wilt thou still be lost?
I bore thee on My shoulders and rejoiced:
Men only marked upon My shoulders borne
The branding cross; and shouted hungry-voiced,
Or wagged their heads in scorn.
Thee did nails grave upon My hands, thy name
Did thorns for frontlets stamp between Mine eyes:
I, Holy One, put on thy guilt and shame;
I, God, Priest, Sacrifice.
A thief upon My right hand and My left;
Six hours alone, athirst, in misery:
At length in death one smote My heart and cleft
A hiding-place for thee.
Nailed to the racking cross, than bed of down
More dear, whereon to stretch Myself and sleep:
So did I win a kingdom,—share my crown;
A harvest,—come and reap.
Love Letter from God
by Deborah Ann Belka
Today I received,
a love letter from God
I opened up my Bible
here is what I read . . .
I am your Creator,
before you were born
I molded and formed you
just like the dew in the morn.
I’m the remedy to your needs,
I am your soothing balm
I’m the peace in your storm
I am the voice that is calm.
I’m all the grace you need,
in Me, there is eternal life
I came so that I could bear
the burden of your strife.
I am your staff of comfort,
I will shield and protect you
through life’s complexities
together we’ll journey through.
I am the anchor of your soul,
a safe place to run and hide
I will never forsake you . . .
I am always at your side.
I’m the lamp unto your way,
with my Word I will guide
I am the One who you feel
stirring up deep inside.
I am your Creator,
I knew you from the start
that is why I gave to you
for Me ~ a loving heart!
Love (III)
By George Herbert
Love bade me welcome. Yet my soul drew back
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,
If I lacked any thing.
A guest, I answered, worthy to be here:
Love said, You shall be he.
I the unkind, ungrateful? Ah my dear,
I cannot look on thee.
Love took my hand, and smiling did reply,
Who made the eyes but I?
Truth Lord, but I have marred them: let my shame
Go where it doth deserve.
And know you not, says Love, who bore the blame?
My dear, then I will serve.
You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat:
So I did sit and eat.
No Greater Love
By Patricia Adderley
Lord, when you chose your disciples,
You chose one whom you knew would betray you
At the last supper, you told him to go,
Knowing what he was about to do.
In the Garden of Gethsemane
when the soldiers came, you did not resist
When questioned by the Pharisee’s,
You did not defend yourself
When asked if you were the messiah,
You simply stated “Yes, I am He”-
In their minds blasphemy
When questioned by Herod-
He had you scourged-
You still did not resist
When mocked by the soldiers-
Still, you said nothing.
When Pilate questioned you,
You said nothing except to confirm
that you were a king and to tell him
The only power he had over you
Was given to him from above.
After being beaten and mocked and flogged,
You still did nothing,
Even knowing that at any time
You could have called down
Twelve legions of angels to help you.
Throughout all of this,
You never wavered,
You were always true
Even when you hung on the cross and said:
“Father, forgive them
For they know not what they do.”
My love for you cannot ever compare
To your love for me.
God’s Valentine Gift
By Joanna Fuchs
God’s Valentine gift of love to us
Was not a bunch of flowers;
It wasn’t candy, or a book
To while away the hours.
His gift was to become a man,
So He could freely give
His sacrificial love for us,
So you and I could live.
He gave us sweet salvation, and
Instruction, good and true–
To love our friends and enemies
And love our Savior, too.
So as we give our Valentines,
Let’s thank our Lord and King;
The reason we have love to give
Is that He gave everything.
What Is Love?
By Helen Steiner Rice
What is love? No words can define it-
It’s something so great only God could design it.
It grows through the years in sunshine and rain,
In gladness and sadness, in pleasure and pain.
It’s ever enduring and patient and kind-
It judges all things with the heart, not the mind,
And love can transform the most commonplace
Into beauty and splendor and sweetness and grace,
For love is unselfish, giving more than it takes,
And no matter what happens, love never forsakes,
It’s faithful and trusting and always believing.
Guileless and honest and never deceiving.
Yes, love is beyond what we can define,
For love is immortal, and God’s gift is divine.
Bible Verses about Love
Our hearts skip a beat when we receive love letters from the one we love. The Bible is God’s love letter to us. Here we find true love, the kind that lays down its life for others.
I Corinthians 13:4-8
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
Lamentations 3:22-23
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;
They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 5:8
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world,[a] that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 8:38-39
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I John 4:19
We love because he first loved us.
Hymns about the Love of God
Throughout the Christian faith, songwriters have penned inspiring words to describe the sweet love of God and the good news of salvation through Jesus. I’ve included links to performances of these beautiful songs so you can listen to the melodies if you don’t know them.
The Love of God by Frederick Martin Lehman
The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell.
It goes beyond the highest star
And reaches to the lowest hell.
The guilty pair, bowed down with care,
God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled
And pardoned from his sin.
When ancient time shall pass away,
And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall;
When men who here refuse to pray,
On rocks and hills and mountains call;
God’s love, so sure, shall still endure,
All measureless and strong;
Redeeming grace to Adam’s race—
The saints’ and angels’ song.
Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made;
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry;
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.
Chorus:
O love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure—
The saints’ and angels’ song.
O The Deep, Deep Love of Jesus by Samuel Trevor Francis, 1875
O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free!
Rolling as a mighty ocean
In its fullness over me!
Underneath me, all around me,
Is the current of Thy love
Leading onward, leading homeward
To Thy glorious rest above!
O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
Spread His praise from shore to shore!
How He loveth, ever loveth,
Changeth never, nevermore!
How He watches o’er His loved ones,
Died to call them all His own;
How for them He intercedeth,
Watcheth oer them from the throne!
O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
Love of every love the best!
Tis an ocean vast of blessing,
Tis a haven sweet of rest!
O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
Tis a heaven of heavens to me;
And it lifts me up to glory,
For it lifts me up to Thee!
Jesus Loves Me By Anna Warner
Jesus loves me, this I know,
for the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to him belong;
they are weak, but he is strong.
Chorus:
Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so.
Jesus loves me he who died
heaven’s gate to open wide.
He will wash away my sin,
let his little child come in.
Jesus loves me, this I know,
as he loved so long ago,
taking children on his knee,
saying, “Let them come to me.
Love Divine, All Love Excelling By Charles Wesley
Love divine, all loves excelling,
Joy of Heav’n to Earth come down,
Fix in us thy humble dwelling,
All thy faithful mercies crown;
Jesus, thou art all compassion,
Pure, unbounded love thou art;
Visit us with thy salvation,
Enter ev’ry trembling heart.
Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit
Into ev’ry troubled breast;
Let us all in thee inherit,
Let us find thy promised rest;
Take away our love of sinning;
Alpha and Omega be;
End of faith as its beginning,
Set our hearts at liberty.
Come, Almighty to deliver;
Let us all thy grace receive;
Suddenly return, and never,
Never more thy temples leave.
Thee we would be always blessing,
Serve thee as thy host above,
Pray, and praise thee without ceasing,
Glory in thy perfect love.
Finish, then, thy new creation;
Pure and spotless let us be;
Let us see thy great salvation
Perfectly restored in thee;
Changed from glory into glory
Till in Heav’n we take our place,
Till we cast our crowns before thee,
Lost in wonder, love, and praise!
As February 14th rolls around, make this a special Valentine’s Day by sending a Christian Valentine message to your loved ones.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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