Love

Christ’s Example of Love – Martin Bucer

Christ is put forward as the example of how we should love, and that is the most effective argument. How great was Christ’s love? What kind of love was his? Christ voluntarily gave himself up to death because of his great love for us—the greatest love anyone could have, in fact. The apostle asks us to imitate him.

– Martin Bucer –
1491-1551

Married to the One You Love – Hudson Taylor

Oh, to be married to the one you do love, and love most tenderly and devotedly… that is bliss beyond the power of words to express or imagination to conceive.

– Hudson Taylor –

Uncommon Marriage Union – Jonathan Edwards

Give my kindest love to my dear wife, and tell her that the uncommon union which has so long subsisted between us has been of such a nature as I trust is spiritual and therefore will continue forever.

– Jonathan Edwards –

Perfect Love – Henry Scougal

Perfect love is a kind of self-dereliction, a wandering out of ourselves; it is a kind of voluntary death, wherein the lover dies to himself, and all his own interests, nor thinking of them, nor caring for them any more, and minding nothing but how he may please and gratify the party whom he loves.

– Henry Scougal –

Healing Hurt by Words – Amy Carmichael

If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying “Peace, peace,” where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word “Let love be without dissimulation” and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

– Amy Carmichael –

The Mortification of Sin – John Owen

Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle (and means) of doing it.

– John Owen –
from The Mortification of Sin

Jesus is the Comfort – Evan Roberts

Dear Friend,
God loves you, therefore seek Him diligently;
Pray to Him earnestly. Read His Word constantly.
Jesus is the Comfort.

– Evan Roberts –