God loves us—and we’re supposed to love him back. How do you actually do that? Simcha Fisher July 20, 2023. Photo by NEOM on Unsplash. When I was little, I pored over the stories of the saints ...

In the Avot prayer, we chant that God will bring us redemption for the sake of our ancestors b’ahavah, in love. In the Kiddush, we chant that God gives us Shabbat b’ahavah, with love….

And yet the sun and the rain still wash over all of us, and God’s love never wavers. More: Scripture. Molly Cahill. Molly Cahill is an assistant editor at America. She was a 2020-2021 O'Hare Fellow.

“God loves us just as we are,” the 86-year-old pontiff said in Italian, adding that even “sinners” are looked after by the Heavenly Father. “The Lord always accompanies us, always.

He loves us, more perfectly than we love our own children, and wants to bless us. He does bless us. Indeed, right after God created man, the scriptures say, “And God blessed them.” (Genesis 1:28) ...

Seeing God's humanity "inspires even more love from us, and the process of love deepens." He said, "Loving Jesus is our one path to union with the Father, and so Jesus is the way.

The Lord loves us as we are, this is God's crazy love." The Catholic Church teaches that members of the LGBT community should be treated with respect, compassion and sensitivity, and their human ...

“If God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” (4,11) Christ himself, of course, specified it beforehand when he, before ascending into heaven, said it as the new commandment.

The Parable of the Prodigal Son has the Lord Jesus presenting God’s love for us as mysterious and, to some degree, unexplainable in human terms.