The Pilgrim Path---Colossians 3: 12—14 

Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the LORD forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

LOVE

“Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.” Jonathan Edwards

“No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.” Alexander MacLaren

“The poorest and most ignorant Christian can everyday find occasion for practicing love and humility.” J.C. Ryle

“Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.” John Wesley

“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.” Victor Hugo

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies: probably because they are generally the same people.” G. K. Chesterton

“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did.” C. S. Lewis

“Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God’s forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.” Andrew Murray

“Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.” John Stott

“The reason for loving God is God Himself. As to how He is to be loved, there is only one measure: It is immeasurable! Bernard of Clairvaux

“If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.” D. L. Moody

“Love cannot think any evil of God, nor endure to hear any speak evil of Him, but it must take God’s part.” William Gurnall

“Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and take up His Cross.” William Barclay

“There is tremendous relief in knowing His love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.” J. I. Packer

“The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to Him is not to believe that He loves you.” John Owen

Philippians 1: 9---“And this is my prayer: that your LOVE may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight.”

Grace and Peace in Jesus Christ Our Risen LORD, Pastor Jason