Quotes About Love

I personally experienced what can happen when the gospel of Jesus Christ gets reduced to a series of theological ideas coupled with all the skills necessary to access those ideas. Bad things happen when maturity is more defined by knowing than it is by being. Danger is afloat when you come to love the ideas more than the God whom they represent and the people they are meant to free. One

no hay un valle de sufrimiento tan profundo que la gracia en Jesús no sea más profunda.

All the human love we've experienced has been flawed in some way. But not God's; his love is perfect and perfectly steadfast forever.

Jesus faced separation from his Father in the here and now so that we would know the Father's acceptance now and for all eternity.

He did what you could never do so that you would be welcomed into the arms of a righteous God and be fully accepted even though, in reality, you are anything but righteous. How can God accept you and not compromise his own righteousness? He can do this because Christ's righteousness has been credited to your moral account. Now, that's amazing grace!

Only when we are progressively freed from our bondage to ourselves do we come to love God as we should; and as we love God as we should, we love people in the way that God has designed. For this struggle, there is amazing, perseverant grace. God bestows on us his eternal transforming love so that by means of that love we will become people who find our rest in his love, and because we do, we are then able to love others well.

No hay función más importante para un padre que esta: paciente y amorosamente conducir a nuestros hijos al punto en que ellos también clamen a Dios por misericordia.

Sin makes us glory thieves... At the bottom of a broken marriage, a shattered family, or a forsaken friendship you will always find stolen glory. We crave glory that does not belong to us, and we step on one another to get it. Rather than glorifying God by using the things he has given us to love other people, we use people to get the glory we love. Sin causes us to steal the story and rewrite it with ourselves as the lead, and with our lives at center stage.

parenting is not first about what we want for our children or from our children, but about what God in grace has planned to do through us in our children.

God loves too much to be willing to forsake his glorious kingdom of grace for your self-absorbed little kingdom of one.

Finally, we must understand that theology is never an end in itself, but a means to an end, the end that we would progressively become like the One who is the ultimate definition of what love is and what love does.

Marriage is meant to expose your self-focus and self-reliance. It is meant to convince you that you are needier than you thought you were and to encourage you that God's grace has more power to transform than you thought it did. Marriage is meant to teach you how to give, love, serve, forgive, support, encourage, and wait. Think

El Dios eterno te permite disfrutar de Su gracia eterna para que puedas vivir con una perspectiva eterna.

Si no respondemos al pecado de otro con un amor redentor, nos hacemos partícipes de su culpa.

You obey not to get God's attention, but because you have been the object of his attention since before the world began.

necesitamos entender que la teología nunca es un fin en sí misma, sino que es un medio para alcanzar un fin: ser cada vez más como Aquel que es la definición por excelencia del amor.

All the human love we've experienced has been flawed in some way. But not God's; his love is perfect and perfectly steadfast forever. It is the single most stunning reality in the life of a believer. God has placed his love on us and he will never again remove it. There's a reason to continue, no matter how hard life seems and how weak you feel.

We all need to be reminded again and again of what God has declared are the most important things in life.

I think often we opt for silence, willingly avoiding issues and letting wrong things go on unchecked, not because we love the other person, but because we love ourselves and just don't want to go through the hassle of dealing with something that God says is clearly wrong.

You could argue that the chief reason God put parents in children's lives is so that they would know him.

The first of these comforts is the stunningly encouraging comfort of God's amazing grace.

We love ourselves so much that we have little energy left to love the One who is love.

The Bible is the story of a love drama that looked as if it would end in tragedy—but then Jesus came.

I think we would be shocked if we knew how many homes of parents who love to sing of God's grace on Sunday completely forget that grace as they parent their children the rest of the week. But without the intervention of God's grace, your children will not be who they are supposed to be or do what they are supposed to do.