God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.
God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world.
Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.
It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse. . . no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies. . . not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.
The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us!
To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.
Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.
Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.
If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn’t draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)? Doesn’t His courting, luring, pushing, calling and even ‘threatening’ demonstrate His love? If He didn’t do all of that, wouldn’t we accuse Him of being unloving in the end, when all things are revealed?
To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious. . . To discard a portion of scripture is not necessarily to reject the truth, but may be the highest evidence that one can give of his love of truth.
God made us for one reason: so He could have fellowship with us. It wasn't that He was lonely or needed us but He made us in His image so He could shower His love upon us.
I love his Word and I hope when readers discover how God communicates his love for them through each book of the Bible, they'll fall deeper in love with his Word too.
As you spend time in God's Word and understand his love, the Holy Spirit will create new desires within you to love and serve others like never before.
Our senses are never more awakened to our need for His love than when our need is most exposed.
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.
The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.
My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.
One of God's main purposes for your life is to fill you with so much of His love that it overflows onto others.