Questions
- List each of the six principles of loving others and give a detailed explanation, with supporting verses.
- What lesson do you draw from this study of love?
20 Quotes
- God made love for Him inseparable from love for others.
- What day did you come before Jesus and He said, 'Get out, I don't love you anymore'?
- God has already secured our existence. God has already made our existence good, He has already made available to us a wonderful life beyond anything we can conceive or even imagine. If we do not enjoy this life it is our problem but everyone can be a hundred times happier if they decided to apply the principles of God.
- Many people have not made the choice to love. When a situation ▪ goes wrong, they choose to be angry all the time. They choose to speak badly. Instead of choosing to love, they choose to feed hatred, to feed disagreement, to feed irritation, ▪ to feed anger. ▪ We all have a choice.
- Just because people are offended doesn't mean someone has offended them. ▪ Especially today in our generation, people are offended by everything. People who should be asking God for forgiveness are offended. You point out something wrong in their life, and they get upset. ▪ Instead of bowing their heads and saying, “Oh my God! I have sinned against God!” they get upset.
- If you are going to walk in love, you are going to choose not to adopt the enemies of others, even people in your family, because they are not perfect.
- No matter how much you love someone, don't take sides. Let the Holy Spirit tell you what to think in every situation.
- He who loves is the one who triumphs, he who loves is the one who wins, he who loves is the one who is free from oppression. ▪ He who loves is the one who is approved by God and God can lead him and cause him to make the right choices in life.
- Every day, pray, Lord, I want to love You as You want to be loved, as much as a human being is capable of loving You. This is the kind of love I want to have for You.
- Benjamin Franklin wrote: “Write your wounds in dust, your blessings in marble.”
- Any refusal to obey always has harmful consequences. God sets up systems, and when we are obedient and respect His system, His goodness becomes inevitable. When you choose to obey and love people even when they are unkind, and especially when they are unkind, the positive consequences will inevitably manifest in your life.
- How do we show love for Jesus? It is not by saying to Him, “Jesus, I love you.” He is not in need of love. It is in our actions; in the fact that we do what He says, that is how we show that we love Him.
- If you can't stand human stupidity, you can't love.
- Someone who does not see his faults will never see the greatness of God's love, of God's forgiveness.
- The problem is that we want to love emotionally only, according to what we feel. We don't love according to what we feel; we change what we feel in order to love.
- You love because of God's faithfulness, not because of human faithfulness.
- We are not victims of life, we are actors in existence.
- In our churches we try at all costs to help people obtain blessings but they are not qualified because they do not love what God loves and those whom God loves.
- If we were to weigh the love you received against the love you gave, would you be even 10? Would the sacrifice you made be even 10 times the sacrifice you received?
Some prayers
- Lord, harden me against difficulty.
- Give me the ability to endure adversity without losing my humanity, to endure difficulty without hating people.
- May my life not be conditioned ▪ by the wickedness of others.
- May my emotions not be dictated by human stupidity.
- Lord, help me to love others as you love me.
- Father, I ask for Your grace to restore broken relationships.








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