Sentence examples for command of love from inspiring English sources

Tokens of goodwill and platitudes will not do, nor will simply proof-texting passages from the Bible or citing arcane church documents meet the command of love for these brothers and sisters who are knocking at the doors of the mercy of the churches and Christians.

And the way to do that is making Jesus the lord of your life and obeying His commands of love for God and for each other.

This biblical novel takes the great command of Torah: Love your neighbor as yourself -- and turns it into a story.

And when that calling comes, so does the reminder of those two commands of Christ: Love God, and love others as you love yourself.

"He is 36 years old," Mr. Spencer writes, "he has commitments, and until now he gave no more credence to the transforming, commanding power of love than he did to the myth of Atlantis".

It is a time to remind ourselves of Jesus' command to love our neighbors and our enemies, of Jesus' radical, nonviolent message of love.

What I did not fully know as a child was the reflexive nature of the command to love neighbor and self.

The universalism of the Christian command to love is most strongly expressed in its demand to love one's enemies.

We should be taking Jesus' command to love every child of God seriously.

Introspective liberal churchgoers returned to the core of the Christian vision: Jesus' command to "Love God and love your neighbor as yourself".

But the church -- or some of the leaders and communities who represent it -- seems to have broken from the central command of Jesus: to love God with all our hearts and love our neighbor as ourselves.