Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Love

Augustine: "God loves all he has made"

Stott: "God does not love us because Christ died for us - Christ died for us because God loved us" 



Kierkegaard: "God loved us first"

St John: "We love him because he first loved us"

Medieval mystic Margery Kempe: “Daughter I have suffered many pains for thy love – therefore thou hast great cause to love me right well, for I have bought thy love full dear”

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