December 9

On Jesus Christ: Love of

“In our Lord’s love we have the best motive for loyalty, the best reason for energy, and the best argument for perseverance.” (1411.243)

“To be constrained by the love of Christ creates a life heroic, exalted, illustrious: no, I must come down from such lofty words—it is such a life as every Christian ought to live; it is such a life as every Christian must live if he is really constrained by the love of Christ, for the text does not say the love of Christ ought to constrain us, it declares that it does constrain us.” (1411.252)