Where love is thin
“Faults are thick where love is thin” – James Howell ? English Proverb ?
What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar. – Proverbs 19:22
“What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.” – Vance Havner
“For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.” – 1 John 5:3
Love and keeping of commandments are entwined. Love God. Keep His commandments. His commandments are not burdensome.
“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.” - C.S. Lewis
“Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.” – Romans 12:9
“‘God is Light.’ ‘God is Love.’ That which professes to be light yet lacks love, is not of God; while that which calls itself love, but is not according to light is equally not of God.” – J. Charleton Steen
Wow.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. – Harriet Ward Beecher
Faith goes up the stairs that love has made and looks out of the windows which hope has opened. – Charles Spurgeon
Just as love makes law enjoyable, law makes love practical. – Walter Chantry
Excellent!