J. N. Darby

We can all love, even an animal can: “peradventure for a good man some would dare to die” but God loves from the motive of His own heart. “God commendeth His love to us” (v.8), the His is emphatic. When I come to the proof I turn wholly away from myself to God, that was the “own …” [?] the doctrine of God's love, when it was all on God's side - the consequence is, I reckon upon the fruits of it.