 Where love is the compelling power, there is no sense of strain or conflict or bondage in doing what is right: the man or woman who is compelled by Jesus' love and empowered by His Spirit does the will of God from the heart. Author: F.F. Bruce
Source: Paul - Apostle of the Heart Set Free, Eerdmans |
| Love is not a thing of enthusiastic emotion. It is a rich, strong, manly, vigorous expression of the whole round Christian character - the Christ-like nature in its fullest development. And the constituents of this great character are only to be built up by ceaseless practice. Author: Henry Drummond |
| I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master. Author: John Newton |
| Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience. Author: Martyn Lloyd-Jones |
| Everywhere you look you see people searching for love... but they're looking in the wrong places. God is love, and they will never find what they're looking for until they find Him. Author: Joyce Meyer |
| Love is the energy of life. Author: Joyce Meyer |
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| I also think it's hard to hate one person but love another. It's hard to treat anybody right when our heart isn't right. Even people you want to love may be suffering from your bitterness, resentment and unforgiveness. Author: Joyce Meyer |
| Love gives life purpose and meaning. Author: Joyce Meyer |
| Love deems this world worth rescuing. Author: Philip Yancey |
| Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other. Author: Philip Yancey |
| Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do. Author: David Wilkerson |
| Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man is the same - the image of God. Author: John of Kronstadt |
