78. LOVE ONE ANOTHER
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This is My commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you (Jn.15:12).
1. Stretch out the fingers of your compassion & love & grasp hold of their heart & pull it toward the Lord.
2. Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard. (Pro.21:13)
3. The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, & also to love our enemies; probably because they are often the same people.
4. There are no strangers here--only friends we have not met.
5. A true friend will see you through, when others think that you are through.
6. Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've done a permanent job.
7. Cold & reserved natures should remember that, though not infrequently flowers may be found beneath the snow, it is chilly work to dig for them and few care to take the trouble.
8. Sympathy is never wasted, except when you give it to yourself.
9. See each person you meet as one who may be seeking your Lord.
10. He drew a circle that shut me out, but love and I had the wit to win; we drew a circle that took him in.
11. Love covers with a veil of silence the mistakes of others.
12. People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
13. You must look into people, as well as at them.
14. Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
15. You can't expect a person to see eye to eye with you when you are looking down on him.
16. A different World cannot be built by indifferent people.
17. A friend is someone who knows your faults, but thinks your virtues far outweigh them.
18. People who like others are the people others like.
19. To love your neighbour is like the Love of God!
20. Love begets love!
21. Love better every day, grow sweeter every day & be a greater blessing every day.
22. Love never fails.
23. What everybody needs is love!
24. We have to love God in order to love our neighbour.
25. If you show a real love for people, you won't have a hard time winning friends.
26. Use friendship as a drawing account if you wish, but don't forget to deposit something into the account.
27. Sacrifice has been the primary requisite for love in our Family.
28. Start the day with love!
29. I don't believe in platonic love, purely spiritual, no flesh involved! There is no such thing! If you love someone, you'll love their body too!--Not only their spirit! You'll want to be together & part of them, to feel their love.
30. Even if you don't like'm, you can love'm!
31. That's the difference between pity and compassion: Pity just feels sorry! Compassion does something about it.
32. The greatest of our sharing is not the mere sharing of our things & personal possessions, but the sharing of our love.
33. Remember, you'll always get enough love if you give enough love--it's a two-way street!
34. Love doesn't care what people think, it just loves in spite of what they think.
35. If you don't love somebody, they can't even walk across the floor without your finding fault with the way they do it!
36. The best cure for a lost love is a new love!
37. If you're so filled with love that you cannot contain it, then you overflow on others and you cause them to grow and to blossom like flowers, and also be filled with love!
38. God gives you supernatural love to love people you don't even like!--You don't have to like them, but you have to love them!
39. If it's going to hurt somebody, then I don't believe in it! There has to be genuine love to make sure no one is hurt.
40. Does "Love suffer long and then blow up"? No, love suffers long and is still kind. (1Cor.13:4)
41. You can never say "I love you," too often. (Jn.21:17)
42. Acts of love and kindness never die.
But in the lives of others multiply.
43. When everyone is benefiting in some way and nobody is being hurt, then it's love.
44. You've got to love each other even if you don't like each other!
45. For the solution to all your problems, forget yourself and think of others.
46. Put yourself in his place.
47. I feel it, when I sorrow most;
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
48. Love shall be our token
Love be yours & Love be mine
Love for God and all men
Love for you and me and mine.
49. If you sow love you're going to reap love. If you sow friendship your going to reap friendship.
50. The heart sees further than the head.
51. Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
52. A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.
53. Instead of putting others in their place, try putting yourself in their place.
54. The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them your friends.
55. Keep loving others and they will love you. Keep serving Jesus and He'll serve you--well!
56. If you can't love your brother or sister, your husband or your wife, your leader or follower, or your mother or father whom ye have seen, how are you going to love God or His heathen children whom ye have not seen? (1Jn.4:20)
57. Love wasn't put in your heart to stay,
Love isn't love till you give it away!
58. Pity the weak!
59. It's never too late for love!
60. Showing a little real love not only encourages a person for the present, but gives them a brighter outlook on the future.
61. How can we say we have love for those whom we have not seen, if we show no love for those whom we have seen?
62. Anybody can be a heart specialist. The only requirement is loving somebody.
63. If you're too busy to heed the cry of those in need, you're busier than God Himself!
64. Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
65. How it improves people for us when we begin to love them!
66. If you're unemotional, if you're cold, if you don't have love and you're not loving, then you're not like the Lord wants you to be, you're not natural.
67. Affection is expressed in a thousand ways, but at times it needs to find words.
68. Love implies faith. How can you really love someone if you don't have any confidence in them?
69. Lord help us to have enough love and enough moderation and enough tolerance to be able to draw a circle that will take others in, instead of a circle that will shut them out!
70. The greatest need of man is love, so the greatest service to man is love!
71. Your love has a broken wing if it cannot fly across the sea.
72. If you are taking the food out of your own mouth and giving your own meal to satisfy and feed another who is hungry and starving for love and needs it desperately and might not survive without it, then this is real love.
73. Real love prefers the happiness of another above your own--selfish love wants to cling & hang on & put in bondage.
74. Love forgets mistakes; nagging about them parts the best of friends.
75. Do you want the key to every heart?--Try Love!--It never fails!-- Because God is Love, and it's impossible for Him to fail!
76. It's marvellous what a little love will do--especially when it's the supernatural, miraculous, inspired love of God!
77. Some people are worth saving & sacrificing for & even getting hurt for.
78. If love is without physical application, then it's like "faith without works which is dead". (Jam.2:26) So to say that you love someone & yet not try to help them physically & whatever way they may need, with food, clothing, shelter etc., this is not love.
79. If you love your neighbour as yourself, you'll put yourself in his place, & wonder how you would feel if you were there & wonder what you'd want & need to have fulfilled.--So love!
80. Most of us fail all too often to express appreciation or comfort to those about us. As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
81. In this Family we have all got to get along with everybody no matter what they're like!
(See also No.18, 25, 123, 203, 302C, 309, 517, 531, 572, 583, 592, 594, 595, 721, 830, 1247, 1395.)
82. 1SA.18:1 The soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
83. 2SA.1:26 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
84. JOB.6:14a To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend.
85. ECC.4:10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
86. MAT.22:39 Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
87. MAT.25:35-40 For I was an hungered, and ye gave Me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave Me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed Me: I was sick, and ye visited Me: I was in prison, and ye came unto Me. Then shall the righteous answer Him, saying, Lord, when saw we Thee an hungered, and fed Thee? or thirsty, and gave Thee drink? When saw we Thee a stranger, and took Thee in? or naked, and clothed Thee? Or when saw we Thee sick, or in prison, and came unto Thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.
88. JOH.13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
89. JOH.15:9 As the Father hath loved Me, so have I loved you: continue ye in My love.
90. JOH.15:12,13 This is My commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
91. JOH.15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
92. JOH.17:26 And I have declared unto them Thy Name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them.
93. ROM.12:9a Let love be without dissimulation (without hypocrisy).
94. ROM.14:21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
95. ROM.15:1,2 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
96. GAL.5:13,14 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
97. GAL.6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
98. EPH.4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
99. PHI.1:9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment.
100. PHI.2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
101. 1TH.3:12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you.
102. 1TH.4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
103. HEB.10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works.
104. HEB.13:1 Let brotherly love continue.
105. 1PE.1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.
106. 1PE.3:8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous.
107. 1PE.4:8 And above all things have fervent love among yourselves: for love shall cover the multitude of sins.
108. 1JO.2:10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
109. 1JO.3:11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another
110. 1JO.3:14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
111. 1JO.3:16-18 Hereby perceive we the Love of God, because He laid down His life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoso hath this World's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the Love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
112. 1JO.3:23 And this is His commandment, that we should believe on the Name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as He gave us commandment.
113. 1JO.4:7,8 Beloved, let us love one another: for Love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
114. 1JO.4:11,12 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth is us, and His Love is perfected in us.
115. 1JO.4:20,21 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God Whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from Him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
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