Quotes about Love

I do "good works" for my wife not in order to earn credit but to express my love for her. Likewise, God wants me to serve "in the new way of the Spirit": not out of compulsion but out of desire.

It makes all the difference in the world whether I view my neighbor as a potential convert or as someone whom God already loves.

Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it

As Dorothy Day put it, "I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

Grace is unfair, which is one of the hardest things about it.

Grace, however, is not about fairness.

But what if I create a universe that is free, free even of me? What if I veil My Divinity so that the creatures are free to pursue their individual lives without being overwhelmed by My overpowering Presence? Will the creatures love Me? Can I be loved by creatures whom I have not programmed to adore me forever? Can love arise out of freedom? My angels love me unceasingly, but they can see Me at all times. What if I create beings in My own image as a Creator, beings who are free? But

Think too of all who suffer as if you shared their pain. HEBREWS 13:3

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind—these are all a drive toward [loving the One] who rings our heart like a bell. —ABRAHAM HESCHEL

A grace-full Christian is one who looks at the world through "grace-tinted lenses.

The church has allowed itself to get so swept up in political issues that it plays by the rules of adversarial power. In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square. Somehow the paramount command to love—even to love our enemies—gets lost.

when we appeal to God's grace and compassion the fearsome God soon disappears.