An Incomprehensible Kind of Love

"Don't measure God's mind by your own. It would be a poor love that depended not on itself, but on the feelings of the person loved. A crying baby turns away from its mother...but she does not put it away till it stops crying. She holds it closer. For my part, in the worst mood I am ever in, when I don't feel I love God at all, I just look up to His love. I say to Him, 'Look at me. See what state I am in. Help me!' Ah! you would wonder how that makes peace. And the love comes of itself; sometimes so strong, it nearly breaks my heart."  ~George Macdonald

"You did not choose Me but I chose you" ~John 15:16

"A battered reed He will not break off, and a smoldering wick He will not put out"  ~Matthew 12:20

"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." ~Romans 5:8