Quotes about Love

Those who suffer rest their security not on things, which often cannot be enjoyed and may soon be taken away, but rather on people.

Legalism lowers, rather than raises, God's standards. Loving your neighbor as yourself, caring for the poor, bringing about justice, forgiving enemies—none of these reduces to a set of rules. Indeed, any list of rules narrows the breadth of what God wants done in the world. It moves the emphasis away from dispensing God's grace to sinners toward a pointless competition with pseudo-saints. It makes faith petty and irrelevant, not something that urgently matters.

There is a simple cure for people who doubt God's love and question God's grace: to turn to the Bible and examine the kind of people God loves.

Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional.

God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already.

The phrase "the body of Christ," expresses well what we are called to do: to represent in flesh what Christ is like, especially to those in need. The

Forgiveness has its own extraordinary power which reaches beyond law and beyond justice.

grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us.

Alcoholics Anonymous discovered long ago that the path toward cure involves more than a quick-fix solution based on increased knowledge. In fact, it involves a change that seems more theological than educational. Somehow the "victim" of addictive behavior must regain an underlying sense of human dignity and choice, a profound reawakening that usually requires much time, attention, and love.

When I ask, "Tell me the first word that comes to your mind when I say Christian," not one time has someone suggested the word love. Yet without question that is the proper biblical answer.

In the study of scientific atheism, there was the idea that religion divides people. Now we see the opposite: love for God can only unite.

God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness. No, God rejoices because one of his children who was lost has been found.