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For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

Why must we love the Lord? Because as we do so, we become refined, pure, and holy.

We are so accustomed to love on a human level that we find loving God for Himself either impossible or beyond our capabilities. We tend to love those who appeal to us, render us a service, or are good to us. In the degree they perform these various services, we love them.

The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

The great commandment of life is to love the Lord.

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

God has created us and poured love into our hearts so that we may do our best to alleviate the suffering that is around us.

I believe that is what the God experience does for us. It calls us beyond our limits into the fullness of life - into a capacity to love people we are not taught to love - and into an ability to be who we are.

The idea of Christ's love for us all is inspiring to me.