Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
Oswald ChambersRead
The love of God is not created- it is His nature.
Interpretation
The love of God is inherent and not something He developed or created; it is simply who He is.
This quote emphasizes that God's love is fundamental to His very being, not something added on or made up. It suggests that God's nature is defined by love, which is an intrinsic quality that exists eternally and independently of anything else.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a sermon about the nature of God.
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.
When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.
When you have heartbreak, what's important is that you don't go halfway. Go all the way down. Don't take pills that keep you in limbo. Cry out all the feelings. Then your own energy for life will put you up again. You become stronger.
The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.
The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.
Hide them all, then. Keep her β them β safe. Please.' And what will you give me in return, Severus?' In β in return? Anything.
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