1 John 4:8
God is LOVE
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is LOVE...Jesus tells us that the whole of the Law and the prophets can be summed up by loving God and loving your neighbor...Jesus forever ties love with God and neighbor...And thus He has linked God with the love of our neighbor and His Father...St. Augustine of Hippo believed because God is LOVE, the man who loves love, certainly loves God; and the man who loves his brother must love love...
These things are some of the things St, Augustine tells us about love...I have said before, and shall say again, that I write this book for love of Your love...Love is ever new because it never groweth old...Love is the beauty of the soul...I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving...To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek Him the greatest adventure; to find Him, the greatest human achievement...The measure of love is to love without measure...In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love...Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves...Singing belongs to one who loves...Love and say it with your life...
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop...Since love grows within you, so beauty grows...For love is the beauty of the soul...
If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow...Love and do what you will...Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one's...The soul of the scriptures, the force of prophecy, the saving power of the sacraments, the fruit of faith, the wealth of the poor, the life of the dying...Love is all...
Thou hast made us for thyself, O LORD, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in Thee...