love

Until the Good News of Jesus Christ burst onto the human scene,the word love was understood mostly in terms of seeking one__ own advantage. Loving the unlovely was incomprehensible A loving God reaching down to sinful humans was unthinkable.

It was God__ love which knew that men were incapable of obeying His law, and it was His love which promised a Redeemer, a Savior, who would save His people from their sins.

Our popular music talks constantly about love, and yet divorce rates skyrocket.

Agape love is selfless love . . . the love God wants us to have isn__ just an emotion but a conscious act of the will__ deliberate decision on our part to put others ahead of ourselves. This is the kind of love God has for us.

True love is an act of the will__ conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves.

God's_love and His gift of salvation_are given to you by God__ grace__ot earned by your works.

Don__ make the mistake of thinking that because God is love everything is going to be sweet, beautiful, and happy and that no one will be punished for his sins . . . God__ love provided the cross of Jesus, by which we can have forgiveness and cleansing.

[The] love of God that reaches to wherever man is, can be entirely rejected. God will not force Himself upon anyone against his will. It is your part to believe. It is your part to receive. Nobody else can do it for you.

No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding,our animal passion rooted in the city.

It is irritating when someone talking to me,When she is not talking

God is sending forth His message of love, but you must tune in. You must be willing to listen and to receive His message and then to obey it.

A God of love must be a God of justice. It is because God loves that He is just. His justice balances His love and makes His acts of bothlove and justice meaningful.

God could not consistently love men if He did not provide for the judgment of evildoers.

God__ love did not begin at the cross. It began in eternity before the world was established, before the time clock of civilization began to move.

It is in the balancing of your spirituality with your humanity that you will find immeasurable happiness, success, good health, and love.

If you love a person, you should show it in adundance, not reserve it for special occasions like fine china.

For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in her eyes. He was an archangel. He__ been wounded far, far worse and shrugged it off. But then, there had been no woman with sun kissed by the sunset and eyes of storm gray to tear into him for daring to get himself hurt.

Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.