Our confidence is not in our love for Jesus which is fragile, fickle, and limited, but in his love for us which is unbreakable, faithful and without conditions.
Unconditional Love
Katherine Walden
We all know children need unconditional love right when they are most unlovable. Unconditional love loves enough to extend discipline and counsel, but it never lashes out in rage. We are God’s children, and His love is unconditional.
James Dobson
Christians have a scriptural mandate to love and care for all the people of the world. Even those who are living in immoral circumstances are entitled to be treated with dignity and respect. There is no place for hatred, hurtful jokes, or other forms of rejection.
Author Unknown
People need to feel welcome in our churches and accepted. Jesus accepted people right where they were at in life BUT He never left them there, He gave them the truth. This is what we must do as well, accept them, welcome them, and serve them the truth with love.
Chris Gore
Jesus opened His heart to those who might never love Him back, because He wasn’t loving to get something in return. He was loving them for them.
N.T. Wright
The world is always assessing people, sizing them up, putting them down, establishing a pecking order. And God, who sees and loves all alike, wants the church to reflect his generous, universal love in how it behaves.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
Drinking the cup that Jesus drank is living a life in and with the spirit of Jesus, which is the spirit of unconditional love. The intimacy between Jesus and Abba, his Father, is an intimacy of complete trust, in which there are no power games, no mutually agreed upon promises, no advance guarantees. It is only love—pure, unrestrained, and unlimited love. Completely open, completely free. That intimacy gave Jesus the strength to drink his cup. That same intimacy Jesus wants to give us so that we can drink ours.
Madame Jeanne Guyon
Come, ye dull, ignorant, and illiterate, ye who think yourselves the most incapable of prayer! Ye are more peculiarly called and adapted thereto. Let all without exception come, for Jesus Christ hath called all.
Thomas Merton
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
James I (J. I.) Packer
He sees all the twisted things about me that my fellow-men do not see (and I am glad!), and that He sees more corruption in me than that which I see in myself (which, in all conscience, is enough). There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose… not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.