galatians from 1 corinthians 13

The first step in backsliding is to put one's service for Christ ahead of one's love for Christ.

Some years ago, the syndicated newspaper columnist Sidney J. Harris shared an interesting anecdote from one of his friends. Each evening, this friend would stop at the same newsstand to buy a newspape...

Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is ...

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.

If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without l...

I heard about a woman who married a very demanding, hard, and unloving man. Her husband made her existence miserable by presenting her with a list of his demands and expectations… The woman’s husband ...

President Harry Truman placed on his desk in the Oval Office a sign that said “The Buck Stops Here.” The sign had to do with a saying that was popular in his day: “Pass the buck,” which meant to shirk...

The Christian’s self-understanding is that she is precious before God—however much a sinner, however much a failure (or success) she may be by the standards of worldly comparisons—and that every other...

Faith is not the absence of doubt. Faith is the presence of love.

Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.

Love cures people: the ones who receive love and the ones who give it, too.

The day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of Love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will...

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

Humility is freedom from the need to prove you are superior all the time, but egotism is a ravenous hunger in a small space—self-concerned, competitive, and distinction-hungry. Humility is infused wit...

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.

Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. A...