Perfect love of God with our heart, soul, mind, and strength will not happen until we are no longer compelled to think about ourselves.
– Bernard of Clairvaux –
from On the Love of God
Love
April 3, 2013
A man must first love God or have his heart united to him, before he will esteem God’s good his own, and before he will desire the glorifying, and enjoying of God as his happiness.
– Jonathan Edwards –
from A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
April 2, 2013
There is only one way to love God: to take not a single step without him, and to follow with a brave heart wherever he leads.
– Francois Fenelon –
from Christian Perfection
April 1, 2013
Do you continually remind those under your care, that the one rational end of all our studies, is to know, love, and serve the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent?
– John Wesley –
from Scriptural Christianity
March 31, 2013
God’s manner is not to bring comfortable texts of Scripture to give men assurance of his love, and that they shall be happy, before they have had a faith of dependence.
– Jonathan Edwards –
from A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
March 30, 2013
Nothing in me can surprise Him out of loving me … there is wonderful comfort in that.
– Amy Carmichael –
from Edges of His Ways
March 28, 2013
What bliss to be a perfectly pardoned soul! What riches of grace does free forgiveness exhibit! To forgive all, to forgive fully, to forgive freely, to forgive ever! Here is a constellation of wonders; and when I think of how great my sins were, how dear were the precious drops which cleansed me from them, I am in a maze of wondering worshiping affection!
– Charles Spurgeon –
March 16, 2013
If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
– Amy Carmichael –
March 15, 2013
Have you by faith grasped Jesus? Are you by faith cleaving unto Him? Faith is the eye which sees the Ladder—the hand which touches it—the strength which holds it—the feet which mount it. Has the Holy Spirit opened to you this figure, which was new life to Jacob? There is a ready test. Is the world beneath your tread? Do you trample on its love, its fashions, its maxims, its principles?
– Henry Law –