People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.
To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.
It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.
I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter.
I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.
People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.
There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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