Quotes About Unconditional

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.

A pet is something to love, a dog particularly. He loves you without opinion or judgment, he does not speak to you indignantly, he does not confuse your affections with foolish ideas and odd perspectives; he merely loves. I sometimes think of how easy it was for my father to favor you, Cassius.

Any hope that you can know yourself without accepting the things about you that you wish were not true is an illusion. Reality must be embraced before it can be changed. Our knowing of ourselves will remain superficial until we are willing to accept ourselves as God accepts us—fully and unconditionally, just as we are.

The Father's love reflects the Father's character, not the children's behavior. My behavior—whether responsible or irresponsible—is beside the point. Responsible behavior does not increase the Father's love, nor does irresponsible behavior decrease it.

Surrender to anything other than love would be idiocy. Alarm bells should go off when we hear of people surrendering to abusive relationships. Surrender involves too much vulnerability to be a responsible action in relation to anything other than unconditional love. Ultimately, of course, this means that absolute surrender can only be offered to Perfect Love. Only God deserves absolute surrender, because only God can offer absolutely dependable love.

The Father's love reflects the Father's character, not the children's behavior.

Real knowing of ourselves can only occur after we are convinced that we are deeply loved precisely as we are. The fact that God loves and knows us as sinners makes it possible for us to know and love our self as sinner. It all starts with knowing God's love.

The relative constancy of the love of family and friends makes the absolute faithfulness of divine love at least conceivable. Hints of unconditional love from humans make the possibility of absolutely unconditional divine love imaginable.

There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love.

God does not change us in order to love us. He loves us in order to change us.

God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value.

Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.

God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.

God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.

God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy.

We might question God's actions, decisions, or declarations. But we can never, ever question his zany, stunning, unquenchable affection.

I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.

Happiness is free, there are no conditions.

History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.

I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.

I find in animals the same thing I find so wonderful in children. That purity, that honesty, where they don't judge you, they just want to be your friend. I think that is so sweet.

No one else, ever, will think you're great the way your mother does.

Unconditional love is the magic bridge that spans the generations: we love them unconditionally, and they love us back without reservations. It's a two-way experience. It grows the children and gentles the grandparents.

You don't have to primp for God. He thinks you're gorgeous, even on the bad hair days.