There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.
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Tag Archives: Love
Overwhelming Grace
Grace overwhelms us with God’s love, and as a result our heart resonates with the desires of God. His purposes become our own. Our soul delights in his service as love for him and thanksgiving for his mercy make us long to honor him. True grace produces joy and promotes godliness.
Bryan Chapell, Holiness by Grace
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God’s Attitude Toward Us
In this world where men forget us, change their attitude toward us as their private interests dictate, and revise their opinion of us for the slightest cause, is it not a source of wondrous strength to know that the God with whom we have to do changes not? That His attitude toward us now is the same as it was in eternity past and will be in eternity to come.
A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (New York: HarperCollins, 1961), 53.
The Motivation of Genuine Holiness
Genuine holiness is motivated by the obligations which love imposes…. An unloving man cannot be a holy man.
D. Edmond Hiebert, The Thessalonian Epistles (Chicago: Moody Press), 157.
Out of Faith Rises Love
Out of faith rises love. No man can love God unless he believes that God loves Him. I, for my part, am old-fashioned and narrow enough not to believe that there is any deep, soul-cleansing of soul-satisfying love of God which is not the answer to the love that died on the cross. But you must believe that, and more than believe it; you must have trusted and cast yourselves on it, in the utter abandonment of self-distrust and Christ-confidence, before there will well up in your heart the answering love to God.
The Nature of Love
Now this is the very nature of love. It must express itself; it is always active; and if our love does not do that, I say it is not true love. You see, the real trouble with the person who is seated there in the study reading beautiful poems or books about love and who feels that he is controlled by it and that he is a fine Christian is this: What is really happening to that person is that he is simply in love with himself, because he appreciates these elevating thoughts. He is loving himself because he thinks he is in love. He has turned in upon himself, and that is the very antithesis to love; love does not look at itself – it is absorbed in the object of its love.
D. Martin Lloyd-Jones, Love Rules: The Ten Commandments for the 21st Century
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Hearts That Resonate with the Desires of God
Grace overwhelms us with God’s love, and as a result our heart resonates with the desires of God. His purposes become our own. Our soul delights in his service as love for him and thanksgiving for his mercy make us long to honor him. True grace produces joy and promotes godliness.
Bryan Chapell, Holiness by Grace
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Life Is Worship 