When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.
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God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the profound depth of love and the extraordinary way in which God demonstrates that love through the sacrifice on the cross.
E. Stanley Jones highlights the fundamental human desire both to love and to be loved, suggesting that God addresses this deepest aspect of our nature through a remarkable revelation of His own nature. This revelation, symbolized by the cross, underscores the lengths to which divine love goes to connect with humanity, portraying love as both a powerful and transformative force.
Themes
LoveSacrificeGodNatureRedemption
In practice
Example use cases
You can use this quote in a sermon to illustrate the depth of God's love.
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An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.
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