Happy Valentine's Day!

 

Hi everyone - just a short break from the songs of deliverance to celebrate the Day of Love - Some excellent quotes on love:

Love always involves responsibility and sacrifice. We do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task & take up His Cross. William Barclay

I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master. John Newton

The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now. Rick Warren

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. Francis of Assisi

There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him. William Law

The things that we love tell us what we are. Thomas Aquinas

Woman was taken out of man; not out of his head to top him, nor out of his feet to be trampled underfoot, but out of his side to be equal to him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved. Matthew Henry

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen Keller

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. G.K. Chesterton

Those who love to be feared, fear to be loved. Francis de Sales

You learn to love by loving. We cannot help conforming ourselves to what we love. Francis de Sales

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. Blaise Pascal

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. Henry Ward Beecher

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. C. S. Lewis

To love God is the greatest of virtues; to be loved by God is the greatest of blessings. Unknown

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. Unknown

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.  Augustine

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her. Max Lucado

God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus. Max Lucado

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown

Romans 8:35-39

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine,

or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long;

We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors

through Him who loved us.

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life,

nor angels nor principalities nor powers,

nor things present nor things to come,

nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing,

shall be able to separate us from the love of God

which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.