"Faith is believing He, the miracle worker, can turn my stone-cold indifference into a fire of love toward certain "unlovables". ~Pamela Reeve
"If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openess. But the toll on such a road is extremely high." ~Chuck Swindoll
"Not all of passion is love and not all of love is passion." ~Ed Cole
"[Christ] is the breathing forth of the heart, life and spirit of God into all the dead race of Adam. He is the seeker, the finder, the restorer of al that, from Cain to the end of time, was lost and dead to the life of God. He is the love that prays for all its murderers; the love that willingly suffers and dies among thieves, that thieves may have a life with him in Paradise; the love that waits publicans, harlots and sinners, and wants and seeks to forgive where most is to be forgiven." ~William Law
"Open your hearts to the love God instills... God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key but to be shared." ~Mother Teresa
"If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this will lead us to prayer: Intercession is a way of loving others." ~Richard J. Foster
"Instead of allowing yourself to be unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow. Seek goodness in others. Love more persons more... love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thought of return. The return, never fear, will take care of itself." ~Henry Drummond
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves. or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." ~Victor Hugo
"Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love." ~Henri J.M. Nouwen
"Love... alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet." ~Thomas a Kempis
"I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves." ~Max Lucado
"All the fruits of the Spirit which we are to lay weight upon as evidential of grace, are summed up in charity, or Christian love; because this is the sum of all grace. And the only way, therefore, in which can know their good estate, is by discerning the exercises of this divine charity in their hearts; for without charity, let men have what gifts you please, they are nothing." ~Johnathan Edwards
"The strength of love is shown in great things; the tenderness of love in little things." ~Robert C. Chapman
"God is Light." "God is Love." That which professes to be light yet lacks love, is not of God; while that which calls itself love, but is not according the light is equally not of God." ~J. Charleton Steen
"If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love." ~John Stott
"A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer..."~Richard Baxter
"Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will." ~C.S. Lewis
"Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour, and if there be no oil to put in again its light will go out. God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love." ~Henry Ward Beecher
"We can do not great things - only small things with great love." ~Mother Teresa
"When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now." ~C.S. Lewis
"The best testimony that Stephen bore was his last: not when preaching and working miracles, but when he pleaded for his persecutors' for then he most resembled the Lord Jesus in patience, forgiveness and love." ~Robert C. Chapman
