“We love because He first loved us”

“We don’t love because we first loved ourselves - we love because He first loved us. (1 John 4:19)”

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”

“Our faith works because we love, and we love because he has first loved us. Our faith is then emboldened by this responsive love; we've been loved, we've been assured of our justification; our Father speaks of our sanctification as if it had already occurred. By faith, then, we can courageously pursue growth into our true identity.”

“Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.”

“He loves us because He is filled with an infinite measure of holy, pure, and indescribable love. We are important to God not because of our resume but because we are His children. He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.”