Quotes about Love

Novelist Reynolds Price said there is one sentence all humankind craves to hear: "The Maker of all things loves and wants me.

Love is the bottom line.

Most importantly, he countered violence with nonviolence, and hatred with love. "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred," he exhorted his followers. "We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

the kingdom of God largely exists for the sake of outsiders, as a tangible expression of God's love for all.

God's arms are always extended; we are the ones who turn away.

people who have been broken by suffering and sickness ask for only one thing: a heart that loves and commits itself to them, a heart full of hope for them."2

When we make condescending judgments, or proclaim lofty words that don't translate into action, or simply speak without first listening, we fail to love — ?and thus deter a thirsty world from Living Water. The good news about God's grace goes unheard.

If reduced to a single phrase, the Bible's message would be something like this: God gets his family back. The Bible tells the story of how God, wanting to live in harmony with all that he had made, set out to win a rebellious world back to himself.

Moralism apart from grace solves little.

Today, if I had to answer the question "Where is God when it hurts?" in a single sentence, I would make that sentence another question: "Where is the church when it hurts?" We form the front line of God's response to the suffering world.

The novelist Reynolds Price says there is one sentence above all that people crave from stories: The Maker of all things loves and wants me. Christians still believe in that truth.

What would it take for church to become known as a place where grace is "on tap