FORGIVENESS AND LOVE
"The noblest revenge is to forgive."---Thomas Fuller
"Forgiveness doesn't come cheap; it never has and never will. If I punch you in the nose and you decide to forgive me, that forgiveness costs something--- a damaged nose." ----Steve Brown
"Everyone says that forgiveness is a great idea--- until they have something to forgive." ---C.S.Lewis
"Force may subdue, but love gains, and he who forgives first wins the laurel."---William Penn
"Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down his life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such."--- William Cowper
"So long as we love, we serve."---Robert Louis Stevenson
"It is love that asks, that seeks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds."---Augustine
"Let’s relinquish worldly things,
And not be slaves to fashion;
Let’s fill our hearts with love,
Forgiveness and compassion." ---Joanna Fuchs
"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."--- Henry Ward Beecher
"A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver."--- Thomas à Kempis
"Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life."--- Thomas Merton
"When the great but dissolute Russian poet A. S. Pushkin finally married in 1831, it was, he said, the 113th time he had fallen in love! Obviously, he didn’t really know the meaning of the word. Perhaps it was the 113th time he had fallen into like or lust! True love is a commitment that two people make to one another, not a hole in the ground into which they happen to fall."--- From A Speaker's Sourcebook of Illustrations
"Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side and bend to every necessity of our brethren."--- Martin Luther
"There are three kinds of love: False, natural and married. False love is that which seeks its own, just as one loves gold, goods, honor, or women outside of matrimony according to God's command. Natural love is between father and children, brother and sister. But above them all is married love. It burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, 'I wish neither gold nor silver, neither this nor that. I want only you.' " ---Martin Luther
"The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be beloved."---Matthew Henry, commenting on Gen.2:21
“A good marriage is not a contract between two persons but a sacred covenant between three. Too often Christ is never invited to the wedding and finds no room in the home.” ---Donald T. Kauffman
"If you have love, you are not only going to think no evil, you’re going to take your tongue and have it nailed to the cross so that you bless instead of curse."--- Billy Graham
"In necessary things, unity;
in doubtful things, liberty;
in all things, charity."---Augustine
"Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and temperance is love in training."--- D.L. Moody
"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."--- Amy Carmichael
"Love ever gives, Forgives, outlives,
And ever stands With open hands.
And while it lives, It gives.
For this is love’s prerogative— O give, and give, and give."--- John Oxenham
"The Church Growth Movement tends to provoke ruthless competition between congregations in the frenzied quest for more ‘nickels and noses’. Christians, however, are summoned to unity instead of rivalry, to cooperation rather than competition (see John 17:20-23; 1 Cor.12:12-26; Gal.5:19-26; Eph.4:1-6; Phil.2:1-11). Observe: 1 John 3:18- 'My children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.' The trademark of an authentic Christian is Love, not being part of the biggest church in town." ---Gary L. Jones
"I believe it to be the mind of Christ, that all who are vitally united to Him, should love one another, exhort one another daily, communicate freely of their substance to one another when poor, pray with and for one another, and sit down together at Lord's Table. I have no doubt from Scripture that, where we have good reason for regarding a man as a child of God, we are permitted and commanded to treat him as a brother; and, as the most sacred pledge of heavenly friendship, to sit down freely at the Table of our common Lord, to eat bread and drink wine together in remembrance of Christ. The same blood has washed us, the same Spirit has quickened us, we lean upon the same pierced breast, we shall blend our voices eternally in singing the same song: 'Worthy is the Lamb!' Is it not reasonable, then, that we should own one another on earth as fellow travelers to our Father's house?" ---Robert Murray McCheyne
SERVICE
"In God’s family there is to be one great body of people: servants."--- Charles R. Swindoll
"It is difficult to stand on a pedestal and wash the feet of those below."
---Chuck Colson
"You came here to serve, not to rule."--- Thomas à Kempis
"So let our lips and lives express The holy gospel we profess;
So let our works and virtues shine To prove the doctrine all divine."
----Isaac Watts
"Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help."--- George Macdonald
"In this world of give and take, there aren't enough people who give what it takes."---Anonymous
"Attempt great things for God; expect great things from God."--- William Carey
"“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.” ---John Wesley
“God does not need our money. But you and I need the experience of giving it.” --- James Dobson
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else." ---Charles Dickens
"Is anybody happier because you passed his way?
Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today?
The day is almost over, And its toiling time is through.
Is there anyone to utter now a friendly word for you?
Can you say tonight in passing with the day that slipped so fast,
That you helped a single person, of the many that you passed?
Is a single heart rejoicing over what you did or said?
Does one whose hopes were fading now with courage look ahead?
Did you waste the day or lose it? Was it well or poorly spent?
Did you leave a trail of kindness or a scar of discontent?"---Anonymous
"Begin at once; before you venture away from this quiet moment, ask your King to take you wholly into his service, and place all the hours of this day quite simply at his disposal, and ask him to make and keep you ready to do just exactly what he appoints."---Frances Ridley Havergal
"Our service to Christ must often be done anonymously." ---1989 Minister's Manual
"It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love Him." --- P. T. Forsyth
"Do little things as if they were great because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in you; and do great things as if they were little and easy because of his omnipotence."--- Blaise Pascal
"I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help him. I ended up by asking him to do his work through me."--- James Hudson Taylor
"No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor; nor has any man a right to be so immersed in active life as to neglect the contemplation of God." ---Augustine
"Before the judgment seat of Christ my service will not be judged by how much I have done but by how much of me there is in it. No man gives at all until he has given all. No man gives anything acceptable to God until he has first given himself in love and sacrifice."--- A. W. Tozer
"Take time to be holy, Speak oft with thy Lord,
Abide in Him always and feed on His Word.
Make friends of God's children, Help those who are weak
Forgetting in nothing His blessing to seek." ---William Longstaff
"If you are going to live for the service of your fellowmen, you will certainly be pierced through with many sorrows, for you will meet with more base ingratitude from your fellowmen than you would from a dog. You will meet with unkindness and two-facedness, and if your motive is love for your fellowmen, you will be exhausted in the battle of life. But if the mainspring of your service is love for God, no ingratitude, no sin, no devil, can hinder you from serving your fellowmen, no matter how they treat you. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not from pity, but from the true centering of yourself in God."
--- Oswald Chambers
"The noblest revenge is to forgive."---Thomas Fuller
"Forgiveness doesn't come cheap; it never has and never will. If I punch you in the nose and you decide to forgive me, that forgiveness costs something--- a damaged nose." ----Steve Brown
"Everyone says that forgiveness is a great idea--- until they have something to forgive." ---C.S.Lewis
"Force may subdue, but love gains, and he who forgives first wins the laurel."---William Penn
"Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down his life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such."--- William Cowper
"So long as we love, we serve."---Robert Louis Stevenson
"It is love that asks, that seeks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds."---Augustine
"Let’s relinquish worldly things,
And not be slaves to fashion;
Let’s fill our hearts with love,
Forgiveness and compassion." ---Joanna Fuchs
"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."--- Henry Ward Beecher
"A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver."--- Thomas à Kempis
"Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life."--- Thomas Merton
"When the great but dissolute Russian poet A. S. Pushkin finally married in 1831, it was, he said, the 113th time he had fallen in love! Obviously, he didn’t really know the meaning of the word. Perhaps it was the 113th time he had fallen into like or lust! True love is a commitment that two people make to one another, not a hole in the ground into which they happen to fall."--- From A Speaker's Sourcebook of Illustrations
"Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side and bend to every necessity of our brethren."--- Martin Luther
"There are three kinds of love: False, natural and married. False love is that which seeks its own, just as one loves gold, goods, honor, or women outside of matrimony according to God's command. Natural love is between father and children, brother and sister. But above them all is married love. It burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, 'I wish neither gold nor silver, neither this nor that. I want only you.' " ---Martin Luther
"The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be beloved."---Matthew Henry, commenting on Gen.2:21
“A good marriage is not a contract between two persons but a sacred covenant between three. Too often Christ is never invited to the wedding and finds no room in the home.” ---Donald T. Kauffman
"If you have love, you are not only going to think no evil, you’re going to take your tongue and have it nailed to the cross so that you bless instead of curse."--- Billy Graham
"In necessary things, unity;
in doubtful things, liberty;
in all things, charity."---Augustine
"Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and temperance is love in training."--- D.L. Moody
"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."--- Amy Carmichael
"Love ever gives, Forgives, outlives,
And ever stands With open hands.
And while it lives, It gives.
For this is love’s prerogative— O give, and give, and give."--- John Oxenham
"The Church Growth Movement tends to provoke ruthless competition between congregations in the frenzied quest for more ‘nickels and noses’. Christians, however, are summoned to unity instead of rivalry, to cooperation rather than competition (see John 17:20-23; 1 Cor.12:12-26; Gal.5:19-26; Eph.4:1-6; Phil.2:1-11). Observe: 1 John 3:18- 'My children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.' The trademark of an authentic Christian is Love, not being part of the biggest church in town." ---Gary L. Jones
"I believe it to be the mind of Christ, that all who are vitally united to Him, should love one another, exhort one another daily, communicate freely of their substance to one another when poor, pray with and for one another, and sit down together at Lord's Table. I have no doubt from Scripture that, where we have good reason for regarding a man as a child of God, we are permitted and commanded to treat him as a brother; and, as the most sacred pledge of heavenly friendship, to sit down freely at the Table of our common Lord, to eat bread and drink wine together in remembrance of Christ. The same blood has washed us, the same Spirit has quickened us, we lean upon the same pierced breast, we shall blend our voices eternally in singing the same song: 'Worthy is the Lamb!' Is it not reasonable, then, that we should own one another on earth as fellow travelers to our Father's house?" ---Robert Murray McCheyne
SERVICE
"In God’s family there is to be one great body of people: servants."--- Charles R. Swindoll
"It is difficult to stand on a pedestal and wash the feet of those below."
---Chuck Colson
"You came here to serve, not to rule."--- Thomas à Kempis
"So let our lips and lives express The holy gospel we profess;
So let our works and virtues shine To prove the doctrine all divine."
----Isaac Watts
"Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help."--- George Macdonald
"In this world of give and take, there aren't enough people who give what it takes."---Anonymous
"Attempt great things for God; expect great things from God."--- William Carey
"“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.” ---John Wesley
“God does not need our money. But you and I need the experience of giving it.” --- James Dobson
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else." ---Charles Dickens
"Is anybody happier because you passed his way?
Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today?
The day is almost over, And its toiling time is through.
Is there anyone to utter now a friendly word for you?
Can you say tonight in passing with the day that slipped so fast,
That you helped a single person, of the many that you passed?
Is a single heart rejoicing over what you did or said?
Does one whose hopes were fading now with courage look ahead?
Did you waste the day or lose it? Was it well or poorly spent?
Did you leave a trail of kindness or a scar of discontent?"---Anonymous
"Begin at once; before you venture away from this quiet moment, ask your King to take you wholly into his service, and place all the hours of this day quite simply at his disposal, and ask him to make and keep you ready to do just exactly what he appoints."---Frances Ridley Havergal
"Our service to Christ must often be done anonymously." ---1989 Minister's Manual
"It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love Him." --- P. T. Forsyth
"Do little things as if they were great because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in you; and do great things as if they were little and easy because of his omnipotence."--- Blaise Pascal
"I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help him. I ended up by asking him to do his work through me."--- James Hudson Taylor
"No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor; nor has any man a right to be so immersed in active life as to neglect the contemplation of God." ---Augustine
"Before the judgment seat of Christ my service will not be judged by how much I have done but by how much of me there is in it. No man gives at all until he has given all. No man gives anything acceptable to God until he has first given himself in love and sacrifice."--- A. W. Tozer
"Take time to be holy, Speak oft with thy Lord,
Abide in Him always and feed on His Word.
Make friends of God's children, Help those who are weak
Forgetting in nothing His blessing to seek." ---William Longstaff
"If you are going to live for the service of your fellowmen, you will certainly be pierced through with many sorrows, for you will meet with more base ingratitude from your fellowmen than you would from a dog. You will meet with unkindness and two-facedness, and if your motive is love for your fellowmen, you will be exhausted in the battle of life. But if the mainspring of your service is love for God, no ingratitude, no sin, no devil, can hinder you from serving your fellowmen, no matter how they treat you. You can love your neighbor as yourself, not from pity, but from the true centering of yourself in God."
--- Oswald Chambers
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