74. LOVE
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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love! (1Jn.4:8).
1. Jesus is the Love of all loves, the Lover of all lovers, Who alone can satisfy that deepest yearning of every human soul for total love & complete understanding.
2. Where love is, there God is.
3. You believe in love as much as you love.
4. It's never too late for love.
5. My enemy drew a circle of hate that shut me out, but I drew a circle of love that brought him in.
6. Love sees through a telescope--not a microscope.
7. We like someone--because. We love someone--although.
8. Love cannot be wasted. It makes no difference where it is bestowed, it always brings in big returns.
9. Faults are thick when love is thin.
10. Love is a hole that needs to be filled plus something to fill it with--like you & me & Jesus!
11. He gives Words of power & life & light, the most important energy of all--& love, the greatest of all power He gives, without which a nation cannot live.
12. What everybody needs is love.
13. Love may be blind, but hate is far more so.
14. The heart has eyes that the mind knows nothing of.
15. Even if you know the Lord, you need someone physical here & now to communicate with & to share with, somebody to talk to & somebody who will listen!--Someone to love!
16. The force of arms is powerless when matched against the force of love.
17. Love begets love.
18. Where love is, there is faith.
19. The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one,
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
20. Love is the threshold of everything beautiful.
21. Love is seeing yourself through another's eyes ... & finding yourself in another's heart.
22. Love is ... believing, trusting, helping, encouraging, confiding, sharing, understanding, feeling, touching, caring, praying, giving.
23. Love is a richness beyond measure, a wonder beyond imagination, a beauty far beyond what we can see.
24. Love lets the little kid in you come out & play.
25. Where there is love there is perfect trust,
There is genuine generous giving.
Where there is love there is perfect joy,
There is unending beauty in living.
26. To lovers, even pockmarks look like dimples.
27. Love is two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
28. Days filled with sharing, years filled with caring,
There's just no comparing a life filled with love.
29. Love is the heart in blossom.
30. Where there is great love there are always great miracles.
31. You're nobody till somebody loves you.
32. There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer, no disease that enough love will not heal. No door that enough love will not open, no gulf that enough love will not bridge. No wall that enough love will not throw down, no sin that enough love will not redeem. It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. Sufficient love will dissolve it all.
33. To be loved is the most precious gift one can receive.
34. Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
35. Where there is love there is perfect trust.
36. Happiness brings happiness & loving ways bring love,
And giving is a treasure that contentment is made of.
37. If we only have love, then tomorrow will dawn
And the days of our years will rise on that morn.
38. Love works in ways that are wondrous & strange.
There is nothing in life that love cannot change.
Love is unselfish, understanding & kind.
Love sees with the heart & not with the mind.
39. You're not an ugly duckling when somebody loves you.
40. The same wind snuffs candles yet kindles fires; so, where trial may kill a little love, it fans a great one.
41. The loneliest place in the World is the human heart when love is absent.
42. When we love, we live. When we live, we love.
43. If it's unloving, it's ungodly!
44. Love is obedience.
45. Love is total humility & total sacrifice!
46. All love is a little selfish or it wouldn't be love.
47. Love melts, it doesn't break.
48. Love is never lost.
49. Love is saying you're sorry.
50. The deepest magic is Love!
51. All love succeeds if it's real love.
52. Love is God!
53. Love is the Power & Light of God!
54. Love has creative power, because God is love & He is the Creator. And with His help our faith can also create.
55. Even the tiniest child can understand Love!
56. With us, everything is love--our God is love, our law is love, our faith & practice is love, it's all love! Isn't that a wonderful religion?
57. "For this is love--that thou shalt give all thou hast & follow Me!"
58. Love is the best way to do things!
59. What is love?--It's just Jesus!
60. The greatest need of all is love.
61. Love gives some pain, & yet love also gives surcease from pain.
62. What is Love?
It is silence when your words would hurt.
It is patience when your neighbour's curt.
It is deafness when a scandal flows.
It is thoughtfulness for others' woes.
It is promptness when stern duty calls.
It is courage when misfortune falls.
63. Ah, sweet mystery of life
At last I have found thee!
Ah, at last I've found the reason for it all!
Ah, 'tis love and love alone the whole world yearns for!
And 'tis love that bids them heed Thy call!
64. Love loves the unlovely and casts a veil over countless sins!
65. It's hard for you to see anything good in someone you don't love, but if you really love someone, it's much easier to overlook and forgive their faults.
66. Love is not blind--it has an extra spiritual eye which sees the good and possibilities that others cannot see!
67. Real love can survive almost any difficulty, difference, weakness, shortcoming, failure, fault, sin, or obstacle.
68. A little bit of love goes such a long way.
69. Love is everything, for without love there is nothing!--No friends, no families, no fathers or mothers or children or sex or health or happiness or God or Heaven!
70. "Love at first sight" is quite possible, and to respond with love to a loving look is a very normal reaction, for "love begets love."
71. Love is not blind--it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
72. Love may not make the world go around, but it sure makes the trip worthwhile.
73. Money will buy a fine dog, but only love will make him wag his tail.
74. You'll, never know the true power of love until you learn the true power of surrender.
75. Love is communication.
76. Even a little love, a little light, is better than no love & no light.
77. Love conquers all!
78. Love is an emotion, something which causes you to move out into something good.
79. Love knows no hours nor days--but is always!
80. God's idea of perfection is love.
81. Love always finds a way.
82. Love's extra eye can see
Unseen possibility!
83. How good, how beautiful must be
The God who made so good a thing as thee!
84. The rod of God's chastening is the ultimate in real love.
85. Total love gives all!
86. A friend--the one who comes in when the whole World has gone out.
87. We're wielding the most powerful weapon the world has ever known!--This little tiny pill-bomb of love!
88. Love isn't just giving when others are giving...It's giving when others are not giving.
89. They have a right to censure who have a heart to help.
90. The Elixir can do anything! It's the power of love!--So wonderful, so beautiful! Nothing can resist it & whatever it touches it changes!
91. Love is the greatest force in the World, & the Word of God the most powerful truth on Earth!
92. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. (SON. 8:7)
93. As beauty reflected by a looking glass, so too is the love of a mother mirrored in her children's smiles.
94. Sympathy is the result of thinking with your heart.
95. Love implies faith. How can you really love someone if you don't have confidence in them?
96. You can only see Love as it is expressed or manifested or put into action!
97. There are many others around you who are just as lonely & longing for love as you are & just waiting for you to make the first move! Step out by faith & talk to someone today about love & try to make them happy! Love someone today! Find out what wonders love can do. You'll find a whole new World of love you've only dreamed of. There are wonders of love that you can enjoy along with some other lonely soul--if you will only try. If you give love you'll get love!
(See also No. 18, 25, 75, 151, 236, 302C, 304, 307, 502R, 584, 592, 594, 607, 639, 647, 648, 677, 699, 724, 811, 845, 847, 997, 1247, 1371, 1373, 1396.)
98. PRO.10:12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
99. PRO.25:21,22 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
100. SON.8:7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
101. MAT.5:44,45 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in Heaven: for He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
102. MAT.14:14 And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and He healed their sick.
103. MAT.25:35 For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in.
104. LUK.6:31-33 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.
105. LUK.10:33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him.
106. 1CO.8:1b Knowledge puffeth up, but (love) edifieth.
107. 1CO.13:4-8a Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth.
108. 1CO.13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
109. 1CO.16:14 Let all your things be done with love.
110. COL.3:14 And above all these things put on (love), which is the bond of perfectness.
111. 2JO.6a And this is love, that we walk after His commandments.
(See also MAT.5:43-48; 25:34-46.)
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