Love is divinity correlated in personality, manifesting as truth, beauty, and goodness. [1] Loving is a direct response to being loved, as we all reciprocate the affection we receive from the Creator Sons and other divine beings. [2] Man's comprehension of love is but a relative truth within the expanding realms of cosmic understanding. [3] The key to true happiness and spiritual progress lies in unifying soul powers through the dominance of love. [4] Love is not natural for man; it requires enlightenment to generate unselfish and altruistic relationships. [5] Persons can only love and hate other persons, for the concept of divine goodness is understandable only in relation to personality. [6] Love prevents estrangements which necessitate repentance, fostering understanding relationships between the creature and the Creator. [7] Knowledge of human things is required to love, while love for divine things produces knowledge. [8] Love is the key to understanding personalities and forming beneficial associations. [9] Love strengthens character and creates happiness, while fear and anger weaken character and destroy happiness. [10] Love supplies the soil for religious growth, ennobling daily drudgery, and spiritually stimulating association with other religionists. [11] The spirit of brotherhood, through unselfish ministry and love for others, brings the Adjuster prior to the Spirit of Truth. [12] Love is the experiential unification of divine law. [13] Express love in intelligent ministry to the real needs of your fellows. [14] Love, as a father's attitude, gives and craves affection in understanding fellowship. [15]
There is an immeasurable cosmic gulf between material mind and spiritual love, beyond the reach of mechanistic electronic association or materialistic energy phenomena. [16]
True love can only be achieved through unselfish social consciousness rooted in religious understanding. [17]
A God-knowing individual must embody unselfish social consciousness to truly love others, as purely subjective philosophic abstractions are devoid of love. [18] A written examination cannot prove the true nature or sincerity of love. [19]
The ancients sought tangible security for marriage, viewing love and promises with mistrust. [20] The dove, a symbol of love, was once believed to represent peace in early evolutionary religion. [21]
God's divine love is the ultimate force guiding the universe, showing mercy and affection to all. [22]
God is love, mercy, and ministry, a universal reality of divine affection and endless compassion. [23] Man's nearest approach to God is through love, for God is love. [24]
The love of God is a farseeing, intelligent, and unified affection that works in harmony with all divine attributes, but it is important to understand that while God is love, love itself is not God. [25] God loves not like a Father, but as a father, revealing his transcendently illuminated selflessness through parental love. [26] Love is the desire to do good to others. [27] The weight of love cannot be measured in balance, transcending materialistic techniques and embracing the divine indwelling. [28]
The Supreme is the avenue through which the love of the Father flows outward to creation, and through which finite creatures pass inward in their quest of the Father. [29]
The four reactions of fatherly love are illustrated by Jesus to guide his followers towards perfection and divine attainment. [30] Do not doubt Father's love, for your sonship is grounded in faith, leading you to trust in the divine word. [31] All true love flows from God, passing through individuals to reach the Supreme. [32] He spoke of those who could achieve divine selflessness, demonstrating fatherly love that transcends brotherly affection. [33] Parental love is the wellspring of beautiful love that Creator Sons share with their Universal Father. [34]
The love of the Father, which appears in mortal personality by ministry of Adjuster, is the essence of all true love, flowing from God through man to his fellows and ultimately to the Supreme. [35] The revelation of the Father’s love is the credential of Jesus’ mission, guiding his followers to prepare for the kingdom with patience and obedience. [36]
Mother love, an instinctive adjutant mind-spirit, forms the bedrock of the natural, strong bond between mother and child in a family. [37]
The essence of Jesus' teaching was love and service to others in recognition of the Universal Father. [38] Through the truth and love that Jesus taught and revealed, He inspired man to purify himself in the heavenly kingdom. [39]
The universe fact of God's becoming man has forever changed all meanings and altered all values of human personality, as love connotes mutual regard of whole personalities, whether human or divine. [40]
Grasping God as a loving Father, Jesus taught to abandon primitive notions of a punishing ruler needing ransom and atonement, for God's love is not secondary in His nature. [41]
Judas's resentment and disappointment toward Jesus gradually transformed his once genuine love into hate, fueled by his subconscious criticism of Jesus for not saving John the Baptist. [42] To share the Master's love and service is to make the old world new. [43]
Money cannot love, but loyalty to family is of utmost importance, as exemplified by Jesus in his unwavering dedication to caring for his widowed mother and eight siblings. [44]
We are all called to proclaim the gospel of love and truth by loving one another with new and startling affection, serving mankind with a new and amazing devotion, and becoming faith-fellows of the kingdom of heaven. [45]
Love always looks for the best, as a father would love his child. [46]
Love, eternally creative, is the central truth in the universe's relations between Creator and creature, exemplified by Jesus' supreme devotion on the cross. [47] The evidence of spiritual rebirth is seen in the sincere love shared among believers in the eternal mercies of the Father’s kingdom. [48] The Father's eternal love forever seeks our welfare, guiding us through endless ages and inspiring us to love our Maker in return. [49] Divine justice, fully perceived, is coincident with the merciful love of the Trinity in the experiential universes of time. [50] God's ultimate joy comes from loving and being loved, embodying the idealism of divine love in all personal relationships. [51]
Love must constantly adapt and understand the highest cosmic good of the individual loved, as well as all others influenced by the spirit-led mortal's relationships, in order to achieve divine perfection. [52]
Love is the greatest of all spirit realities, revealing the full divinity reality and leading to intellectual peace, social progress, moral satisfaction, spiritual joy, and cosmic wisdom. [53]
Divine love, despite its severe disciplines, ultimately aims for the reverent recognition of the fatherhood of God and the loving materialization of the brotherhood of man. [54] God's love is an intelligent and farseeing parental affection that follows us throughout eternity. [55] Love is made real by loving each other, uniting all in the spirit of Truth. [56] Mortals can feel undiminished impact of the infinite Father's love. [57] Divine love is outgoing, satisfying needs unselfishly, never self-seeking or self-bestowed. [58] God's love is not shortsighted; it does not spoil or pamper, for Providence gives us the power of choice and God's refusal to tyrannize us. [59] Love is the outworking of the divine urge of life, nurtured by unselfish service and wisdom. [60]
The love of the Father illuminates the transcendent value of each unique personality, highlighting their irreplaceable nature within the celestial family. [61] In love, God entrusts us with everything we are capable of performing, showing his selfless nature and infinite love. [62] Love, the sum total of truth, beauty, and goodness, is the greatest thing in the universe and the divine ideal revealed by Jesus as equal to God. [63] God's love for each of his sons is true, holy, unlimited, eternal, and unique. [64] Love is the true guide to real insight in our pursuit of spiritual understanding. [65] Love is the identification of the volitional will of God, encompassing mercy, patience, and forgiveness. [66]
Peter's well-meant affection for Jesus inadvertently became a stumbling block to his divine mission. [67] Divine affection transcends human word symbol unfit. [68] The essence of love transcends mere illusion, reaching its true meaning through the intertwining of truth, beauty, and goodness. [69]
Rebecca's love for Jesus transcended affectionate possession, evolving into worshipful and adoring regard, inspiring both men and women to love him devotedly for what he was. [70]
Love, when bestowed by all-wise beings, is the supreme reality of the universe, but for mortal parents, it is often dangerous and semiselfish in nature. [71]
Spirituality measures proximity to God and usefulness to others, by enhancing perception of beauty, truth, and goodness through the removal of selfish qualities of love. [72]
God's love creates the universal brotherhood of all individuals, revealing the interconnectedness of the whole. [73] Embrace the love of God, which casts out all fear, and leads to repentance. [74] Jesus' love destroys hate and sin, all weakness resulting therefrom, providing eternal salvation. [75] Those who dwell in love are truly of God, as the Thought Adjuster must endure the consequences of evil thinking within the human mind. [76]
Love, truly infectious and more catching than hate, is born of thorough understanding, leading to the realization of the brotherhood of man and the eternal salvation and rehabilitation offered by Jesus' divine love. [77] The love of the Father operates directly in the heart of the individual, regardless of others; it is a personal relationship between man and God. [78] To love as Jesus loves us is to strive for a fatherly affection towards mankind, reflecting both divine and human compassion. [79] Love saves the sinner, while the law destroys sin. [80]
The vindication of divine love is evident in the triumph of love in the Lucifer rebellion, despite the trials and tribulations faced by innocent beings. [81] Love, the essence of religion, the wellspring of civilization. [82] All true love, dynamic and alive, is from God and flows through man to his fellows, ultimately reaching the Supreme. [83] The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance. [84]
By the grace of faith, love all men as I have loved you, serving and fellowshipping with understanding sympathy and brotherly affection. [85] Divine love awakens love in the human heart, leading to eternal salvation and redemption through Jesus' loving and transformative forgiveness. [86] Each day, aim to understand and love one more human being to truly socialize and spiritualize your personality with contagious and unselfish love. [87] Faith enhances the power to love and be loved. [88] Freely give and receive love, seeking only what honestly belongs to you. [89] The greatest love is to lay down one's life for friends, just as Jesus did. [90] Divine love is outgoing and unselfishly bestowed, fulfilling the love need for those lacking in love, as human love is reciprocal. [91] All true love is from God and becomes real only when bestowed upon others. [92]
Love cannot be manufactured or purchased; it must grow, just like all forms of growth which are unconscious and require favorable conditions provided by man's contribution of mobilizing the total powers of his personality. [93] Understanding and forgiveness are the foundations of love, leading to true unity and the realization of the brotherhood of man. [94]
Learn to love others by loving their Father, becoming interested in their welfare, as taught by Jesus to see human personalities in terms of their possibilities in time and eternity. [95] True love cannot be willed into existence; it must be cultivated through deep understanding and genuine selflessness. [96] Ignorance breeds suspicion, incompatible with love, hindering intellectual cross-fertilization and brotherhood. [97]
The more we bestow ourselves upon our fellows, the more we come to love them, as Jesus loved his family with great affection despite needing to detach from his Nazareth home. [98]