The most important commandment in the Gospel is to love God and love those around you.

So when God lavishes his excessive love upon us, he also puts us on the spot: Excessive love means excessive expectations. My daughter, a collector of spiritual quotes on Pinterest, shared a quote ...

This love is God's love - regardless of what the person does for us, whether or not they're attractive, or whether or not they are our equal. Jesus said to love all.

So each day I prayed, “Let the Mother-love of God shine in me so that others, too, will feel this love and experience healing.” This was not a personal ability I asked for.

I also didn’t love God because I didn’t spend time with him, and that needed to be fixed. Mind you, this has been a 40-plus-year project, and it’s been somewhat uneven to say the least, ...

Love of God is the Reason for Education If education does not lead us to God, then it is pointless. William Holman Hunt, “The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple,” 1854 ) ...

Pope John Paul II tells us, “This relationship is a revelation and a realization in time of the mystery of salvation, of the election of love, hidden from eternity in God” (Wednesday audience ...