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NOTES

Chapter 1: God Is Love

1. Adapted from Reuben Archer Torrey, Anecdotes and Illustrations (New York: Revell, 1907), 35–36.

2. Trula Cronk, Over Mountain or Plain or Sea (Nashville: Randall House, 2003), 162.

3. Max Lucado, In the Grip of Grace (Dallas: Word, 1996).

4. Charles Ryrie, Basic Theology: A Popular Systematic Guide to Understanding Biblical Truth (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1986), 35.

5. John R. W. Stott, The Epistle of John (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964), 160.

6. John Bartlett, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (New York: Hachette, 1891).

7. Peter Kreeft, The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1988), 49–50.

8. Frederick M. Lehman, “The Love of God,” 1917.

9. Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming (New York: Image Books/Doubleday, 1994), 42.

10. John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998), 180.

11. Brennan Manning, “Living as God’s Beloved: An Interview with Brennan Manning About How We Can Experience God’s Love,” Discipleship Journal, July/August 1997, accessed December 28, 2012, http://www.navpress.com/magazines/archives/article.aspx?id=11697.

12. J. I. Packer, Knowing God (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1973), 41–42.

13. John Piper, The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God’s Delight in Being God (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 2000), 188.

14. Michael B. Brown, God’s Man: A Daily Devotional Guide to Christlike Character, ed. Don M. Aycock (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2000), 15.

15. Adapted from Mark Galli, “The End of Christianity as We Know It,” Christianity Today, April 15, 2010, accessed February 29, 2012, http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/aprilweb-only/25-41.0.html?start=3.

16. Packer, Knowing God, 124.

17. A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (New York: HarperCollins, 1961), 102.

18. Brennan Manning, The Wisdom of Tenderness: What Happens When God’s Fiery Mercy Transforms Our Lives (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 25–26.

Chapter 2: God Loved You Before You Were Born

1. Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming (New York: Image Books/DoubleDay, 1992), 105–6.

2. Alexander Tsiaras, TED Talks, “Conception to Birth—Visualized,” November 2011, accessed March 6, 2012, http://www.ted.com/talks/alexander_tsiaras_conception_to_birth_visualized.html.

3. John Phillips, Exploring Psalms, Volume Two: An Expository Commentary (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1988), 597–98.