The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person’s soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.
Fellowship
Francis Frangipane
There’s something like radar inside the human heart that senses the displeasure of others. Displeasure and ingratitude are like a repellant to human relationships. People think, “If I can’t measure up, if you can’t see anything good in me, I’ll go where people will accept me as I am.” Thanksgiving brings our loved ones closer to us rather than driving them away.
William T Ham
There are many things which a person can do alone, but being a Christian is not one of them. As the Christian life is, above all things, a state of union with Christ, and of union of his followers with one another, love of the brethren is inseparable from love of God. Resentment toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart with love to God. The personal relationship to Christ can only be realized when one has “come to himself” as a member of His Body, the Christian fellowship.
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Henry Drummond
Instead of allowing yourself to be unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow. Seek goodness in others. Love more persons more — love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thought of return. The return, never fear, will take care of itself.
Doug Addison
Honor people’s process.
Sometimes, asking them to change too quickly will do more harm than good.
James Castleton
Agape is a sobering love to receive, for it says, ‘If I cannot love you for who you are, then I will do so despite who you are.’ It is unique in that it is able to love those whom it cannot like.
John Ortberg Jr.
Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend… The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear — because peace and fear are both contagious.
Henry Drummond
Why do we want to live for ever? Because we hope that tomorrow will bring us someone we can love. Because we want to live another day with the person we love beside us. Because we want to find someone who deserves our Love and who, in turn, will know how to love us as we deserve to be loved. That is why, when a man has no one to love him, he feels a great desire to die. As long as he has friends, people who love him and whom he loves too, he will live. Because to live is to love
Danny Silk
The world needs to see a church who can keep her love on. It needs to see mature sons and daughter of God, powerful people who know how to walk in freedom, practice intimacy, clean up their messes, and who invite people around them to become powerful and free lovers.
John Climacus
Just as a tempered metal can sharpen soft or rusty metal, so can a zealous brother set a tepid one on the right track.