Scripture: 1 John 4:7-14
“Ordinary love, anonymous and unnoticed as it is, is the substance of peace on earth, the currency of God’s grace in our daily life.”
Tish Harrison Warren
“All other gods are actually powerless, because there is no true power without love. And there is no true love without compassion, no true compassion without suffering. Which means Christ, the one who innocently and truly suffered, the one who truly feels with us, the only one who has shown God’s true love for us—only Christ has the power of God for salvation, which means only Christ can be worshiped as God and King.”
NT Wright
“Love moves toward people, even if that means confrontation. It doesn’t leave them alone in their suffering or in their selfishness. Sometimes people are so paralyzed that unless we intrude, unless we break through both of our natural reserves, we can’t love them. When I need to talk to one of our teenagers about something and know I’ll get an earful, I remind myself that love moves toward people. I don’t even need to know what to say—I can just move closer.”
Paul Miller
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