"The good news says that God loves us no matter what - not because we have deserved that love by making ourselves pleasing to God, but just because God loves us. As we begin to believe that, we find ourselves free, for once in our lives, to see ourselves for exactly who and what we are. We don't need to be more beautiful, richer, stronger, wiser, more powerful, more in control, better, more perfect - not, at least, in God's eyes. None of these attainments will make God love you more. God cannot love you more. God has already given you all the love there is to give."
L. W. Countryman