THE
GREATEST
BREAD
13 And
now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is
love. 1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)
4 Love
is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 It is
not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record
of wrongs. 6 Love
does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always
trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)
7 Dear
friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves
has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God
is love. 1 John 4:7-8 (NIV)
11 This
is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 1 John 3:11 (NIV)
16 And so
we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love
lives in God, and God in him. 1 John
4:16 (NIV)
16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only
Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the
world, but to save the world through him.”
John 3:16-17 (NIV)
6 For in
Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only
thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. Galatians 5:6 (NIV)
5 For
the Lord is good and his love
endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. Psalms 100:5 (NIV)
BUTTER
“A good character
is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember
you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on
marble.” Charles H. Spurgeon
“Truth and
love are the characteristics which build up the church, especially in
association with each other. Yet this combination is rare in the contemporary
church. Some leaders are great champions of the truth and anxious to fight for
it, but display little love. Others are great advocates of love, but have no
equal commitment to truth...Truth is hard if it is not softened by love and love is soft if it is
not strengthened by the truth.” John
Stott
“He
who is filled with love is filled with God Himself.” Augustine
“He alone loves the Creator
perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.” Venerable
Bede
“The end of
learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate
Him.” John
Milton
“Obedience
to God is the most infallible evidence of sincere and supreme love for Him.” Nathanael
Emmons
“To
love God, to serve Him because we love Him, is…our highest happiness…Love makes
all labor light. We serve with
enthusiasm where we love with sincerity.”
Hannah More
“Love
one another that it may at last be said of Christians as it was at first: ‘Behold how they love one another.’” Ralph
Venning
HEART
SAVOR
- · God is love.
- · God’s love gives sacrificially and my love is to be given sacrificially as well.
- · True love makes labor light.
