Love

January 11, 2013

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

– Augustine –

January 10, 2013

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

– CS Lewis –

January 9, 2013

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

– Warren Wiersbe –

January 8, 2013

How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose! … YOU drove them from me, YOU Who are the True, the Sovereign Joy drove them from me and took their place! … O Lord, my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation!

– St. Augustine –

January 7, 2013

The love life of a Christian is a crucial battleground. There, if nowhere else, it will be determined as to who is Lord: the world, the self and the devil, or the Lord Christ.

– Elisabeth Elliot –
from Passion and Purity

January 6, 2013

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

– CT Studd –

December 30, 2012

It is impossible to comfort men’s hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.

– William Booth –

December 17, 2012

O, how precious is Christ! How can it be that I have thought so little of him…

– Charles Spurgeon –

December 1, 2012

Let me seek Thee in longing, let me long for Thee in seeking; let me find Thee in love, and love Thee in finding.

– Anselm of Canterbury –