Love

“There is an infinite distance and disproportion between God and man; yet he came over all that to love man. What difficulty should I have, then, to place my affection on my equal at worst, and often better? There cannot be any proportionable distance between the highest and lowest, between the richest and poorest, between the most wise and the most ignorant, between the most gracious and the most ungodly, as there is between the infinite God and a finite angel. Should, then, the mutual infirmities and failings of Christians be an insuperable and impassable gulf, as between heaven and hell, that none can pass over by a bridge of love to either? ~ Christian Love by Hugh Binning”

“It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels.”

“If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without.”

“He chose us not because we were lovely, but that He might make us lovely.”

“Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own, He hath run away to heaven with it.”

“O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.”