Gifts are improved in us by prayer and study, but the benefits of those gifts are shared among us by love and unity.
– John Flavel –
1627-1691
Gifts are improved in us by prayer and study, but the benefits of those gifts are shared among us by love and unity.
– John Flavel –
1627-1691
A true love of God must begin with a delight in His holiness.
– Jonathan Edwards –
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
– John Stott –
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
– John Wesley –
Love is the highest gift of God; humble, gentle, patient love; that all visions, revelations, or manifestations whatever, are little things compared to love; and that all other gifts . . . are either the same with or infinitely inferior to love. Therefore, you should be thoroughly aware of this – the heaven of heavens is love. There is nothing higher in religion; there is, in effect, nothing else; if you look for anything but more love, you are looking wide of the mark, you are getting out of the royal way. And when you are asking others, “Have you received this or that blessing?” if you mean anything but more love, you mean wrong; you are leading them out of the way, and putting them on a false scent. Settle it then in your heart, that from the moment God has saved you from all sin, you are to aim at nothing more but more of that love describe in the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians. You can go no higher than this, till you are carried into Abraham’s bosom.
– John Wesley –
Before I preach love, mercy, and grace, I must preach sin, law, and judgment.
– John Wesley –
Self-love may lead us to prayers, but love to God excites us to praises.
– Thomas Manton –
1620-1677
A life of prayer will make a life of love to Christ, to other Christians, and to those without Christ.
– Andrew Murray –