“A Communist officer told a Christian he was beating, 'I am almighty, as you suppose your God can be. I can kill you.' The Christian answered, 'The power is all on my side. I can love you while you torture me to death.'” I CanChristianSidesLove YouTortureCommunistOfficersAlmighty Author:Richard Wurmbrand
“Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and abject in your own eyes.” IfsLoveFeelsDoeEyeChristianSufferingLordLove YouAnd LoveSaintHumbleSweetnessHis LoveOur LordCatholic Saint Author:Pio of Pietrelcina
“God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'” WorldLoveChristianChristLove YouCrossesDiedSalvationResurrectionHungEasterPalmsHis LoveI Love YouRisenI Loved YouFunny EasterEaster SeasonEaster ResurrectionEaster DayChristian EasterHappy EasterReligious EasterEaster SundayChrists ResurrectionChrist On The CrossFollowing ChristKids EasterHe Has RisenShort EasterHe Is RisenPalm Sunday Author:Billy Graham
“Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lose our own in the process. (Women are supposed to find in this loss their true fulfillment.) But every individual person is born both to assert herself or himself and to act out a sympathy for others trying to find themselves - in Christian terms, meant to love one's self as one loves others ... Jesus never taught that we should split up that commandment - assigning 'love yourself' to men, 'love others' to women. But society has tried to.” IfsMenShouldTryingPersonsHas BeensSelfChristianJesusIndividualProcessTermBornLosesLossLove YouTaughtDefinedFulfillmentLove YourselfSplitsCommandmentsOne LoveNurturingAssertionManlinessHis Loss Book:We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader
“If somebody says, you know, to love your enemies, you could say, 'Well I'm going to love them to death.' We've done that sort of stuff so it can be done. But if you really start with love your enemies, and if you look at the tradition of the first Christian centuries, nobody ever seems to suggest well if they come after us to persecute us, is it alright to kill a few? Defensively, of course.” IfsKnowsFirstsWellsLooksDoneSeemsChristianCoursesStuffEnemyCenturyLove YouTraditionAlrightLove Your Enemies Author:John Dominic Crossan