D - Spirit of Prophecy

Love’s agencies have wonderful power, for they are divine. The soft answer that “turns away wrath,” the love that “suffers long and is kind,” the charity that “will cover a multitude of sins” if we would learn the lesson, our lives would be gifted with power for healing. Life would be transformed, & the earth would become a likeness & foretaste of heaven! TEd 69

How much the Father loved us we can never compute. There is no standard with which to compare it. Christ was hid in God, & God stood revealed to the world in the character of His Son... Love for a lost world was manifested every day, in every act of His life. 1MCP 249

He pointed His hearers to the Ruler of the universe, under the new name, “Our Father.” He would have them understand how tenderly the heart of God yearned over them. He teaches that God cares for every lost soul; that “like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him.” MB 74

All the paternal love which has come down from generation to generation through the channel of human hearts, all the springs of tenderness which have opened in the souls of men, are but as a tiny rill to the boundless ocean when compared with the infinite, exhaustless love of God. Tongue cannot utter it; pen cannot portray it. You may meditate upon it every day of your life; you may search the Scriptures diligently in order to understand it; you may summon every power & capability that God has given you, in the endeavor to comprehend the love & compassion of the heavenly Father; & yet there is an infinity beyond. You may study that love for ages; yet you can never fully comprehend the length & the breadth, the depth & the height, of the love of God in giving His Son to die for the world. Eternity itself can never fully reveal it. Yet as we study the Bible & meditate upon the life of Christ & the plan of redemption, these great themes will open to our understanding more & more. 5T 740

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