Topical Bible: Love to God: Better than all Sacrifices

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Mark 12:33
And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
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Whether Martyrdom is an Act of the Greatest Perfection?
... as it is directed to some good consisting in an act of virtue, such as faith or
the love of God, so that this act of virtue being the end is better. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether martyrdom is an act 3.htm

Whether Obedience is the Greatest of the virtues?
... other virtues is set aside, is better than other virtues ... through fear of punishment,
but through love of justice ... sin consists in man contemning God and adhering ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether obedience is the greatest.htm

Whether Mercy is the Greatest of the virtues?
... belongs to one who is higher and better to supply ... and to impart, for by such sacrifices
God's favor is ... as regards external works: but the inward love of charity ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether mercy is the greatest.htm

'Love Buildeth Up'
... one way, but if from that of love, it will ... asserting that all Christians recognise
one God, the Father ... But there is something better than knowledge; namely, love ...
/.../maclaren/romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/love buildeth up.htm

Proof that God did not Appoint the Levitical Dispensation for his ...
... Behold, a ready obedience is better than sacrifice, and to hearken ... his brother, and
ye shall not love false swearing ... all these it is evident that God did not ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xvii proof that god did.htm

Whether Christ Died Out of Obedience?
... according to Eph.5:2: "Walk in love, as Christ ... us an oblation and a sacrifice to
God for an ... 1 Kings 15:22: "Obedience is better than sacrifices." Therefore it ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether christ died out of.htm

Excellence of this virtue.
... will, the greater will be his love of God ... God does not want sacrifices, the prophet
Samuel told ... For obedience is better than sacrifices; and to hearken, rather ...
/.../de liguori/uniformity with gods will/1 excellence of this virtue.htm

Letter xv. --Trials to be Endured Peacefully.
... for this is most irritating to our spiritual self-love. ... this humble and childlike
conduct towards God will touch ... that we ask, or something else better for us ...
/.../de caussade/abandonment to divine providence/letter xv trials to be endured.htm

The Death of the Saviour the End of all Sacrifices.
... offerings kept alive the longing for some better help, and ... Love to Christ, and the
good fight of the ... useless wish, which cannot determine the verdict of God. ...
/.../schleiermacher/selected sermons of schleiermacher/xiv the death of the.htm

A Royal Seeker after Wisdom
... breaks into praise of Solomon's God, whose love to Israel ... He is to her but 'thy God.'
But we may ... of sense, and cleared to see how much better than wealth and ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/a royal seeker after wisdom.htm