Saving Love Quotes

• The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Order, Opposites

  Pope Francis (2015). “Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday”, p.18, Image

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• To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Focus, Saving, Christ

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• Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. God's saving love in Christ, however, is marked by both radical truthfulness about who we are and yet also radical, unconditional commitment to us. The merciful commitment strengthens us to see the truth about ourselves and repent. The conviction and repentance moves us to cling to and rest in God's mercy and grace.

  Timothy Keller

  Moving, Commitment, Love Is

  Timothy Keller (2013). “The Obedient Master”, p.34, Penguin

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• You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.

  Mae West

  Saving, Want, Interest

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us on to do our best. A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties. Everyone needs to be touched by the comfort and attraction of God’s saving love, which is mysteriously at work in each person, above and beyond their faults and failings.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Order, Small Steps

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.17, BookBaby

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• The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it, the whole gospel got twisted around it. Instead of being God’s big message of saving love for the whole world, the gospel became a little bit of secret information on how to solve the pesky legal problem of original sin.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Dog, Secret, Church

  Brian D. McLaren (2012). “The Last Word and the Word after That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity”, p.186, John Wiley & Sons

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• All revealed truths derive from the same divine source and are to be believed with the same faith, yet some of them are more important for giving direct expression to the heart of the Gospel. In this basic core, what shines forth is the beauty of the saving love of God made manifest in Jesus Christ who died and rose from the dead.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Heart, Expression

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.15, BookBaby

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