Spurgeon's Sermons: Volume Forty-One

But, Brothers and Sisters, it is very wonderful that God should love us when we try our hardest to be rid of Him, when we are at enmity against Him, when we are opposed, even, to His love, and will not listen to the Gospel of His Grace Yet so He did-He loved us even in this condition Perhaps some of you do not feel that there is anything very remarkable in this love of the Lord to the loveless. I should like you to try, if you could, love somebody who has nothing about him that is at all lovable. I hope, dear Christian people, that you do this, but if you learn to love the wicked, the ungodly, the injurious, the deceivers-if you even love those who vilify you, those who slander you every day, those who despise you and deride you and those who are ungrateful to you-if you do this, then you will get into some sort of sympathy with God and you will begin to understand a little of what His great love must be