“Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God.”~Lew Wallace,*Ben-Hur*You are my #O2*LORD. ******today w/ you, friends, sharing thoughts on OUR GODs love: “Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.”~Guru Nanak, Sri Guru Granth Sahib Homage: honoring GODs love through the loving, selfless service of so many who love GOD as I do: to all my favorite Facebook friends, thank you for all whom you are, and share, in loving GOD, knowing this LOVE is for all of us, youre valued, appreciated, in ways words cannot express. “When we talk to our fellow men and they tell us about their troubles, we will listen to them carefully if we have love for them. We will have compassion for their suffering and pain, for we are Gods creatures; we are a manifestation of the love of God.” ~Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica “Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, Gods love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.” ~Dieter F. Uchtdorf “To truly try means to accept Gods love, his healing, to accept the world can be ugly, but your heart doesnt have to be. It takes courage, Finley the warrior. You havent held on to your anger and bitterness in search of healing, but as a banner of your hurt. Because its real and visible and strong, she said. But so is Gods love and so are those arms hes holding out for you.” ~Jenny B. Jones, There Youll Find Me “We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.” ~Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out “When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of No answer. It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, Peace, child; you dont understand.”~C.S. Lewis “Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.” ~Tullian Tchividjian “Its not about finding ways to avoid Gods judgment and feeling like a failure if you dont do everything perfectly. Its about fully experiencing Gods love and letting it perfect you. Its not about being somebody you are not. Its about becoming who you really are.” ~Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Woman “Too much of anything is dangerous unless its Gods Love.” ~Reign “Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You dont have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.” ~Desmond Tutu “The same God who loves us as we are also loves us to much to leave us as we are. Perhaps because we tend to hold to ideas about God that reflect our own suppositions and fears, more than Gods self-revelation. We reduce God to our own dimensions, scribing to him our own reactions and responses, especially our own petty and conditional kind of love, and so end up believing in a God cast in our own image and likeness. But the true God, the living God, is entirely other. Precisely from this radical otherness derives the inscrutable and transcendent nature of divine love-- for which our limited human love is but a distant metaphor. Gods love is much more than our human love simply multiplied and expanded. Gods love for us will ever be mystery; unfathomable, awesome, entirely beyond human expectation. Precisely because Gods love is something no eyes has seen, nor ear heard nor the heart of man conceived (1 Cor 2:9), Mother Teresa meditated on it continuously, and encouraged us to do the same, to continue plumbing this mystery more deeply. To this end she invites us: Try to deepen your understanding of these two words, Thirst of God. ” ~Joseph Langford “If we deny the grief its right in our lives, then we must question the love for which the grief is supposedly rooted. Gods grief is founded in His love for Himself and His love for us. Looking at God as our model is healthy. Facing the pain means honoring those with whom our love is rooted.” ~W. Scott Lineberry “If you have never known the power of Gods love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.”~Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat “We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have deserved his love and not in spite of our undeserving; not because we try and not because we recognize the futility of our trying; but simply because he has chosen to love us. We are children because he is our father; and all of our efforts, fruitful and fruitless, to do good, to speak truth, to understand, are the efforts of children who, for all their precocity, are children still in that before we loved him, he loved us, as children, through Jesus Christ our lord.” ~Frederick Buechner,The Magnificent Defeat “When we talk to our fellow men and they tell us about their troubles, we will listen to them carefully if we have love for them. We will have compassion for their suffering and pain, for we are Gods creatures; we are a manifestation of the love of God.” ~Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica “Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, Gods love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.”~Dieter F. Uchtdorf “To truly try means to accept Gods love, his healing, to accept the world can be ugly, but your heart doesnt have to be. It takes courage, Finley the warrior. You havent held on to your anger and bitterness in search of healing, but as a banner of your hurt. Because its real and visible and strong, she said. But so is Gods love and so are those arms hes holding out for you.” ~Jenny B. Jones, There Youll Find Me “We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.” ~Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out “When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of No answer. It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, Peace, child; you dont understand.”~C.S. Lewis “Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.” ~Tullian Tchividjian “Its not about finding ways to avoid Gods judgment and feeling like a failure if you dont do everything perfectly. Its about fully experiencing Gods love and letting it perfect you. Its not about being somebody you are not. Its about becoming who you really are.” ~Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Woman “Too much of anything is dangerous unless its Gods Love.” ~Reign “Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You dont have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.” ~Desmond Tutu “The same God who loves us as we are also loves us to much to leave us as we are. Perhaps because we tend to hold to ideas about God that reflect our own suppositions and fears, more than Gods self-revelation. We reduce God to our own dimensions, ascribing to him our own reactions and responses, especially our own petty and conditional kind of love, and so end up believing in a God cast in our own image and likeness. But the true God, the living God, is entirely other. Precisely from this radical otherness derives the inscrutable and transcendent nature of divine love-- for which our limited human love is but a distant metaphor. Gods love is much more than our human love simply multiplied and expanded. Gods love for us will ever be mystery; unfathomable, awesome, entirely beyond human expectation. Precisely because Gods love is something no eyes has seen, nor ear heard nor the heart of man conceived (1 Cor 2:9), Mother Teresa meditated on it continuously, and encouraged us to do the same, to continue plumbing this mystery more deeply. To this end she invites us: Try to deepen your understanding of these two words, Thirst of God. ” ~Joseph Langford “If we deny the grief its right in our lives, then we must question the love for which the grief is supposedly rooted. Gods grief is founded in His love for Himself and His love for us. Looking at God as our model is healthy. Facing the pain means honoring those with whom our love is rooted.”~W. Scott Lineberry “If you have never known the power of Gods love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.” ~Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat “We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have deserved his love and not in spite of our undeserving; not because we try and not because we recognize the futility of our trying; but simply because he has chosen to love us. We are children because he is our father; and all of our efforts, fruitful and fruitless, to do good, to speak truth, to understand, are the efforts of children who, for all their precocity, are children still in that before we loved him, he loved us, as children, through Jesus Christ our LORD.” ~Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat
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