#chris

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#god #religion #love

The music coming from inside sounded like robots fucking. And complaining about it. In rhythmic monotone. European robots. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#you-suck #love

Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God. ↗

— Francis Chan

#love

Love is larger than the walls which shut it in. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#love #love

As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart. ↗

— Francine Rivers

#michael-hosea #love

I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain. ↗

— Graham Greene

#pain #love

It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#love

Don’t get old, Kaylee. It sucks! ↗

— Christie Walker Bos

#goodbye-blues #hello-love #love

Chastisement leads to the acceptance of God’s will. [. . .] Chastisement leads to the fellowship of God’s Son. The will of God out of Christ is a law we cannot fulfil. The will of God in Christ is a life that fills us. [. . .] Chastisement leads to the enjoyment of God’s love. [. . .] Chastening is the school in which the blessed lesson is learnt that the will of God is all Love, and that Holiness is the fire of Love, consuming that it may purify, destroying the dross only that it may assimilate into its own perfect purity all that yields itself to the wondrous change. [. . .] And faith can only grow by exercise, can only thrive in trial: when visible things fail, its energy is roused to yield itself to be possessed by the Invisible, by the Divine. ↗

— Andrew Murray

#chastisement #holy-in-christ #change

The whole teaching of the Gospel is really a teaching about loving. The fact that we fall short of it condemns us, but doesn't make its declaration less true. ↗

— Metropolitan Anthony Bloom

#gospel #love #orthodoxy #love