Unloving attitudes and words cause a "stench that the world can smell... Our sharp tongues, the lack of love between us... these are what properly trouble the world."

For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity.

Churches closing at a rate of six thousand per year in North America are not doing so because of worship style or form of government or methodology. They are failing because regardless of your preference on those points, it's pointless to deny the true cause behind debates and divisions—a failure to love.

Be loving in conflict or be loving in frustration or let love command your every interaction because "love never fails."

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love" (1 Corinthians 16:13—14).

Men need to know that you don't need to become a woman to love others as God designed for the benefit of all.

advancing the cause of Jesus that didn't begin and end with love. I was wrong, totally wrong, and had to come to the place where I grieved the failure to love as the greatest failure a Christian is capable of.

The greatest failure in human existence is the failure of Christ-followers to "love one another earnestly from a pure heart"5 and to heed the words of Christ: "By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."6

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence

She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

Love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.

I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion.