sweetly bound

"It is a strange and beautiful eccentricity of the free God that He has allowed His heart to be emotionally identified with men. Self-sufficient as He is, He wants our love and will not be satisfied till He gets it. Free as He is, He has let His heart be bound to us forever." ~A.W. Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy

"For our soul is so specially loved of Him that is highest, that it overpasseth the knowing of all creatures; that is to say, there is no creature that is made that may know how much and how sweetly and how tenderly our Maker loveth us. And therefore we may with grace and His help stand in spiritual beholding, with everlasting marvel of this high, overpassing, inestimable Love that Almighty God hath to us of His Goodness." ~Julian of Norwich

infinite love

"Because of the great, infinite love which God has for all humankind, He makes no distinction in love between the blessed soul of Christ and the lowliest of the souls that are to be saved...We should highly rejoice that God dwells in our soul and still more highly should we rejoice that our soul dwells in God. Our soul is made to be God's dwelling place, and the dwelling place of our soul is God who was never made."

~Julian of Norwich