The Lord Jesus loves us with all His heart. He desires that we love Him with all our heart; and until we do, we will never know the sweetness of His love for us. We will have some faint concept but that is all. With how many people do we share the secrets of our heart and with whom do we share them? We will be intimate with the person we know loves us, the person we know is committed to us, the person who has given himself or herself to us, and with none besides. It is so with our Lord. There must be response of love to love.
— Joseph Carroll (1919–2008), Bibellehrer, Prediger, Missionar und Buchautor
Topics: Love, Discipleship, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit
Occasions: For Reflection
Joseph Carroll
Joseph Carroll (1919–2008) war ein australisch-US-amerikanischer evangelikaler Missionar, Pastor und Bibellehrer, der unter anderem in Japan wirkte und das Evangelical Institute of Greenville in den USA gründete. Bekanntheit erlangte er vor allem durch sein Buch „How to Worship Jesus Christ“ sowie durch eine Verkündigung, die persönliche Christusnachfolge, weltweite Mission und ein hingegebenes Gebetsleben betonte. Für Bibelleser bieten seine Schriften bis heute geistliche Impulse für die persönliche Andacht und ein Verständnis von Anbetung als ganzheitlicher Lebenshaltung.
All quotes by Joseph Carroll (3)
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
Henri Nouwen
It wasn't the nails that held Jesus to the cross. It was love.
Max Lucado
To love a person means to see them as God meant them to be.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I ask myself: what does hell mean? I maintain: it is the inability to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A drop of love is worth more than an ocean of reason.
Blaise Pascal
Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.
Craig Groeschel
The world consists of nothing but opportunities for love.
Søren Kierkegaard