He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
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The Spirit of God is the Spirit of love. He that does not love the image of God in his people, has no saving knowledge of God.
1 John 4:8 quoted in popular culture
- Visit of Pope John Paul II Remarks at a White House Reception.
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Visit of Pope John Paul II Remarks at a White House Reception. · Jimmy Carter · American Presidency Project hit for the phrase "God is love". Excerpt: And we are also reminded: " God is love ." Let all of us here of every …
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- Pool Reports of September 22, 2021
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Pool Reports of September 22, 2021 · Joseph R. Biden, Jr. · American Presidency Project hit for the phrase "God is love". Excerpt: angry with anybody because God is love ." Elizabeth Eaton, presiding …
- A History of Western Philosophy
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- Apostles
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- April 20
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- Bill Hicks
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- Carl Jung
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- Charles Hartshorne
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- Christian anarchism
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- Confusion
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- Dinah Craik
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- Dogma
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- Doom
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- Edmund Burke
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- Epitaphs
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- February 14
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- First Epistle of John
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- Gene Wolfe
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- Godhead
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- Halford E. Luccock
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- Jacques Ellul
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- James Hamilton (1814–1871)
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- January 15
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- John the Evangelist
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- Jon Sobrino
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- June 1
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- June 5
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- Kingdom of God
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- Leo Tolstoy
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- Love of God
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- Martin Luther King Jr.
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- Mary Baker Eddy
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- Meister Eckhart
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- Michael (archangel)
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- Monism
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- Now
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- October 3
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- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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- Power
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- Preaching
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- Rainbows
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- Religious views on love
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- September 9
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- Søren Kierkegaard
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- T. H. White
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- Thomas Merton
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- Thomas Wolfe
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- W. H. Auden
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- William Sloane Coffin
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