“If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.”
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 526.
“Well you say that it's gospel,
But I know that it's only church.”
“The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.”
“…the vinegar of the law, then the wine of the gospel…”
Heaven Taken By Storm
“In the Praise ever due to the Gospel of Grace
Its Universality holds the first Place.”
X & XI
Miscellaneous Poems (1773), A Paraphrase on the Prayer used in The Church Liturgy for All Sorts and Conditions Of Men
Context: The Church is indeed, in its real Intent,
An Assembly where Nothing but
Friendship is meant;
And the utter Extinction of Foeship and Wrath
By the Working of Love in the Strength of its Faith.
This gives it its holy and catholic Name,
And truly confirms its apostolic Claim;
Showing what the One Saviour's One Mission had been:
"Go and teach all the World," — ev'ry Creature therein. In the Praise ever due to the Gospel of Grace
Its Universality holds the first Place.
When an Angel proclaim'd Its glad Tidings the Morn
That the Son of the Virgin, the Saviour, was born,
"Which shall be to all People," was said to complete
The angelical Message, so good and so great,
Full of " Glory to God," in the Regions Above,
And of "Goodness to Men," is so Boundless a Love.
The Doctrine of Repentance (1668)
“If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.”
Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom