love

Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too.

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

A person cannot direct his emotional life in the way he bids his motor system to reach for a cup. He cannot will himself to want the right thing or to love the right person or to be happy after a disappointment, or even to be happy in happy times. People lack this capacity not through a deficiency of discipline but because the jurisdiction of will is limited to the latest brain and to those functions within its purview. Emotional life can be influenced, but it cannot be commanded.

His gut was stitched up good and tight, but that didn__ prevent it from flopping. He wiped his damp palms on the legs of his jeans and stood up shakily, leaning heavily on his cane.He called himself a masochist for putting himself through this torture day after day.He braced himself for the disappointment of having to go home alone.He braced himself for happiness like he__ never known in his entire life.He watched the door they would come through.

[Christians] are commanded to love our neighbors, and the first step in doing this is to show a watching world that Christ reigns within us.

I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God__ love for them in Christ.

God has not changed. His laws have not changed. He is still a God of love and mercy But He is also a God of righteousness and judgment.

When you truly love someone, you want to please and honor them by the way you act. How you treat someone shows whether or not you really care about them.

God is love_ means that He tries constantlyto block your route to destruction.

No one can grasp the love of the God of the universe without knowing His Son.

What relationships need strengthening in your life? Don__ wait for them to grow cold or bitter, but ask God to help you strengthen them by putting God__ love into action__egin today.

Speak about the love of God and faces light up, but speak of God as a Judge, and our attitudes change.

There is one thing God__ love cannot do. It cannot forgive the unrepentant sinner.

Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. In freedom it gives itself unreservedly, abundantly, completely. All the laws on the statutes, all the courts in the universe, cannot tear it from the soil, once love has taken root.

If we truly love Christ, we will want to please and honor Him by the way we live. Even the thought of hurting Him or bringing disgrace to His name will be abhorrent to us.

Scripture makes it clear that our first love is always to be for our Lord.

When Christ__ love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run.

The mystery of God__ love would not be a mystery if we knew all the answers.