Isaac Watts Quotes

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

We have the freedom to pray and the freedom to love the God of our heart. And we have been forgiven by the only one who could condemn us. We are truly free.

The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and humanity rather than enslavement and subservience; a God of love, righteousness and community rather than hatred, self-interest and exploitation.

God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.

Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.

Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.

To love God passionately is to love truth passionately.

What do we want? What would we be at? What do our souls desire? Is it not that we might have a more full, clear, stable comprehension of the wisdom, love, grace, goodness, holiness, righteousness, and power of God, as declared and exalted in Christ unto our redemption and eternal salvation?

God's love never ceases. Never... God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.

Only look to Jesus. He died for you, died in your place, died under the frowns of heaven, that we might die under its smile.

God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love.

At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.

We all know that love is truly the key. Anyone who tries to make anyone think that things of destruction has anything to do with God or Allah, they're a liar.

Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?

All the fruits of the Spirit which we are to lay weight upon as evidential of grace, are summed up in charity, or Christian love; because this is the sum of all grace. And the only way, therefore, in which any can know their good estate, is by discerning the exercises of this divine charity in their hearts; for without charity, let men have what gifts you please, they are nothing.

God loves you not because you are worthy, but because He is God and you are a fixture in His mind.

No sinner has the right to say with impunity, 'God you owe me grace.' If grace is owed, it is not grace. The very essence of grace is its voluntary character. God reserves to himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others.

If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.

Lord, how you afflict your lovers! But everything is small in comparison to what you give them afterwards.

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated on a throne. Divinity is love. . . . Wherever goodness, beauty, truth, love, are-there is the divine.

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.