“And may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.”
2 Thess. 3:5
“If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.
1 John 4:12
More love to Thee, O Christ,
More love to Thee!
Hear Thou the prayer I make
On bended knee;
This is my earnest plea:
More love, O Christ, to Thee,
More love to Thee,
More love to Thee!
ELIZABETH PRENTISS
The Love of the things that perish can only be driven out by the strength of superior love. Love is the pure and perfect discipline. He who is perfected in love, the love of the divinely beautiful and good, is perfect in life. He who loves finds sacrifice holy, battle joyous, toil easy; pain has even a sweetness when love imposes it, and tender touches purge all the anguish away. Commence your self-discipline by that which alone can complete it. Open your heart to the love of the Lord Jesus. Loving Him, all lovely things fall into their just proportion, their true relation to your being; while all unlovely things fall into their true contempt and shame. It is the one regnant principle of the free creation. It will make such order in your nature as reigns in the bright universe around you. It shines resplendent as the essential glory in the saints and angels who bow before the eternal throne.
J. BALDWIN BROWN
The only preservative from this withering of the heart is love. Love is its own perennial fount of strength. The strength of affection is a proof, not of the worthiness of the object, but of the largeness of the soul which loves.
F.W. ROBERTSON
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