Love
The love of Christ has no border: it has no shore; it has no bottom.
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.
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.
And behold, Thou wert within, and I abroad, and there I searched for Thee; deformed I, plunging amid those fair forms which Thou hadst made.
He sometimes chides, but it is always in the tenderest manner, with the kindest intentions: it is ‘my love’ even then.
It is God’s nature to love; just as it is the nature of the sun to shine.
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.
Christ comes in with his embraces when the soul faints with love and spiritual longings.
His name has been to me as a civet-box; yea, sweeter than all perfumes.
Ah, my child, while you slept God watched over you with His boundless Love, and breathed thoughts of peace into your heart!
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 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.
The love of God is always the love of God in its entirety, in its fullness as an indwelling power, a love of God to me that leaps back to Him in love, and overflows to my fellow-men in love.
Love Him more than yourself, and his glory more than your life.
Love Him, and I will acquit you of everything else; for everything else will come by 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.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
That our only business was to love and delight ourselves in GOD.
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.
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.
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