Love
Christ Jesus has no quarrel with his spouse. She often wanders from him, and grieves his Holy Spirit, but he does not allow her faults to affect his love.
The love of Christ has no border: it has no shore; it has no bottom.
I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.
I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
Love Him more than yourself, and his glory more than your life.
Man was born in the warm heart of God.
The soul is to be made sweet not by taking the acidulous fluids out, but by putting something in—a great love, God’s great love.
May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and into the perseverance of Christ.
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
It is God’s nature to love; just as it is the nature of the sun to shine.
Thou dost demand our love, holy Lord Christ, And batest nothing of thy modesty; Thou know’st no other way to bliss the highest Than loving thee, the loving, perfectly.
God is love, and He imparts to them of His brightness and His blessedness.
His love, my dear sisters, is incomprehensible; his love passeth all other loves: The love of the Lord Jesus is first, without beginning; his love is free without any motive; his love is great without any measure; his love is constant without any change, and his love is everlasting.
As a mother puts out her finger to her little child and woos it to walk by saying, ‘Come,’ even so does Jesus.
He makes rich provision for her wants, pays all her debts, allows her to assume his name, and to share in all his wealth.
“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.”
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
God loves you not because you are clever not because you are good, but because He is your Father. The Cross of Christ does not make God love us; it is the outcome and measure of His love to us.
Too late loved I Thee, O Thou Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new! too late I loved Thee!
For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
Love gives all, and must have all in return. The wishes of one become binding obligations to the other, and the deepest desire of each heart is, that it may know every secret wish or longing of the other.
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