Love

What Great Love – Max Lucado

On the eve of the cross, Jesus made his decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you.

– Max Lucado –

Jesus Must Be Your First Love – Leslie Ludy

Until Jesus Christ is the obsession of your heart, you’ll always be looking to mere men to meet your needs that only Him can fill. Only when you make Jesus Christ your first love, will you be ready for a love story that reflects His glory.

– Leslie Ludy –

Jesus Christ to Love Man – John Bunyan

What we have under consideration, is so much the more to be taken of; namely that a person so great, so high, so glorious, as this Jesus Christ was, should have love for us, that passes knowledge. It is common for equals to love, and for superiors to be beloved; but for the King of princes, for the Son of God, for Jesus Christ to love man thus: this is amazing, and that so much the more, for that man the object of this love, is so low, so mean, so vile, so undeserving, and so inconsiderable, as by the Scriptures, everywhere he is described to be.

–  John Bunyan –
from All Loves Excelling, 1692

Compelled to Give All – Andrew Murray

How many have given only what they could never miss and what costs them little or no sacrifice. How different it would be if the full blessing of Pentecost began to flow in. How the hearts of men would burn with love for Jesus and, out of sheer joy, be impelled to give everything that He might be known as Savior and all might know His love.

– Andrew Murray –
from Experiencing the Holy Spirit

Love Without Weakness – Jim Elliot

Lord, give me firmness without hardness; steadfastness without dogmatism; love without weakness.

– Jim Elliot –
from his Journals, November 24, 1949

Holy Spirit Imparts – DL Moody

The Spirit of God first imparts love; he next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in many of our churches.

– Dwight L. Moody –

Perfect Love – Hugh Binning

Perfect love casts out the fear of hell, but perfect love brings in the fear of sin: “Ye that love the Lord, hate evil” Psalm 97:10; and if you hate it, you will fear it, in this state of infirmity and weakness wherein we are.

– Hugh Binning –
from Christian Love, 1627-1653

A Mighty Longing After God – AW Tozer

I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.

– AW Tozer –