Minister, chaplain, and author Dr. Billy Holland writes about loving God with one's entire heart, soul, strength, and mind.

The phrase gained popularity in the 1970s through the public statements and writings of Chicago Bears football legend Gale Sayers. Sayers used the sentence as a motto to represent his philosophy on ...

Indeed, Jesus summed them all up in a positive note when he said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and your neighbor as yourself.” ...

Such love asks nothing for what it gives the loved party. Do you love God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your spirit and with all your strength without expecting anything in return?

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength’” (Mark 12:29–30).

But I think it's probably more important to really try to follow up on the first commandment: "Love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole mind, all of your strength." ...