Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Love
Catch on fire – John Wesley
Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
– John Wesley –
The highest gift of God – 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 –
Preaching the whole Gospel – John Wesley
Before I preach love, mercy, and grace, I must preach sin, law, and judgment.
– John Wesley –
Self-love vs God love – Thomas Manton
Self-love may lead us to prayers, but love to God excites us to praises.
– Thomas Manton –
1620-1677
A life of prayer – Andrew Murray
A life of prayer will make a life of love to Christ, to other Christians, and to those without Christ.
– Andrew Murray –
A Baptism of Pure Love – Samuel Logan Brengle
Do you want to know what holiness is? It is pure love. Do you want to know what the baptism of the Holy Spirit is? It is not a mere sentiment. It is not a happy sensation that passes away in a night. It is a baptism of love that brings every thought into captivity to the Lord Jesus (see 2 Cor. 10:5); casts out all fear (see 1 John 4:18); burns up doubt and unbelief as fire burns flax; makes you ‘meek and lowly in heart’ (Matt. 11:29); makes you hate uncleanness, lying and deceit, a flattering tongue, and every evil way with a perfect hatred; makes heaven and hell eternal realities; makes you patient and gentle with the disobedient and sinful; makes you ‘pure … peaceable … open to reason, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere’ (James 3:17), and brings you into perfect and unbroken sympathy with the Lord Jesus Christ in His toil and travail to bring a lost and rebellious world back to God.
– Samuel Logan Brengle –
No ceiling to love – Mildred Bangs Wynkoop
There is no ceiling to love.
– Mildred Bangs Wynkoop –
Self-Giving Love – Bill Ury
Holiness is nothing less than self-giving love. More than conceptual, this love is tangibly self-offering, self-dispensing, and self-emptying. It is the essence of biblical discipleship.
– Bill Ury –