“You are not called to believe in your love to God, but in God's love to you! Do not argue, 'I cannot love God! I have striven to my uttermost to do so, but have failed in all my endeavors, until in despair I have abandoned the thought and relinquished the attempt.' Be it so- no effort of your own can strike a spark of love to God from your heart. Nor does God demand the task at your hands. All that He requires of you is faith in His love, as embodied and expressed in Jesus Christ to poor sinners.” BelieveHeartDoeHandsJesusChristPoorEffortDemandDespairJesus ChristTasksStrikesArguingGod LoveSinnerEndeavorSparksAbandonedBelieve In YouHis LoveGod's Love Author:Octavius Winslow
“It is because we have such shallow views of God's love that we have such defective views of God's dealings. We blindly interpret the symbols of His providence, because we so imperfectly read the engravings of His heart.” HeartViewsSymbolsProvidenceShallowGod's LoveDealingsDefective Author:Octavius Winslow
“Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so overflowing, with love so tender, with sympathy so exquisite, with power so illimitable, with resources so boundless, with a nature so changeless, stands before us and says to each trembling heart, 'Fear not!'” HeartJesusChristGraceLonelinessResourcesFilledExquisiteBoundlessTremblingFear NotGloomy Book:Divine Realities; or, spiritual reflections for the saint and sinner Source: Divine Realities; or, spiritual reflections for the saint and sinner
“The death of Jesus was the opening and the emptying of the full heart of God; it was the outgushing of that ocean of infinite mercy that heaved and panted and longed for an outlet; it was God showing how he could love a poor, guilty sinner.” HeartJesusPoorOceanMercyInfiniteOpeningGuiltySinnerOutletsFull Hearts Book:Personal Declension and Revival of Religion in the Soul Source: Personal Declension and Revival of Religion in the Soul