Quotes about Love

Grace is loving people for who they are, where they are. It's loving people *before* they change, not just *after* they change. And that grace is the difference between holy and holier-than-thou. Holiness, in its purest form, is irresistible. That's why sinners couldn't be kept away from Jesus. Hypocrisy has the opposite effect. It's as repulsive to the irreligious as the Pharisees' religiosity was to Jesus.

You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.

Jesus didn't carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so that we could come alive in the truest and fullest sense of the word.

In the words of Corrie ten Boom, "There is no pit too deep that God's grace isn't deeper still.

Now, here's a little tip. If you try to play God instead of playing the man, it won't work out so well. When you try to do God's job for Him, it backfires. It's the Holy Spirit's job to convict; it's your job to love. We

Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.

Jesus could have aborted his redemptive mission with one call for angelic backup. But Jesus wasn't trying to save himself. He was trying to save you.

One reason we turn a deaf ear to God is because we're afraid of what He's going to say, but that's because we don't know His heart toward us. You want to hear what He has to say. Trust me. The Song of Songs says, 'His mouth is sweetness itself.

As the interview ended, I asked him one last question: "If you had one thing to say about God and man, what would you say?" He paused, switched to English, and said, "Man is not valuable because he loves God. Man is valuable because God loves him.

We usually hear what we want to hear and turn a deaf ear to everything else. But remember the package deal? If we don't listen to everything God has to say, we eventually won't hear anything He has to say. And we probably need to hear most what we want to hear least. But this I know for sure: His tone of voice is always loving. Sometimes it's tough love in the form of rebuke or discipline, but it's loving, nonetheless.

Years ago my friend Alan Groff shared this definition: "love is the accurate estimate and the adequate supply of another person's need.

God's love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost.