사랑은 힘이다

사랑은 힘이다

사랑은 힘이다. 지적 및 도덕적 힘이 원칙에 관여되어 있으며, 그것과 분리될 수 없다.

부의 권세는 타락시키고 멸망시키는 경향을 가지고 있으며, 무력의 힘은 상하게 하는 데 강하다. 

그러나, 순수한사랑의 탁월성과 가치는 선을 행하며 선만 행하는 데 그효력이 있다. 

순수한 사랑에 의해 이루어지는 것은 무엇이든지, 사람이 보기에는 매우 작고 하찮을지라도, 

사실은 전적으로 풍부한 열매를 맺는다. 

왜냐하면, 하나님께서는 얼마나 많은 양의 일을 했는가보다 

얼마나 많은 사랑을 행사했는가를 더 중요시하시기 때문이다.

사랑은 하나님께 속한 것이다. 

거듭나지 아니한 마음은하나님께서 기르시는 사랑의 나무를 생기게 하거나 자라게 할 수가 없다. 

이 나무는 그리스도께서 통치하실 때에만 살며 번성한다.

-교회증언 2권, 135.

 

 

 Love is power

Love is power. Intellectual and moral strength are involved in this principle, and cannot be separated from it.

The power of wealth has a tendency to corrupt and destroy; the power of force is strong to do hurt; but the excellence and value of pure love consist in its efficiency to do good, and to do nothing else than good. 

Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God regards more with how much love one worked than the amount he did.

Love is of God. The unconverted heart cannot originate or produce this plant of heavenly growth which lives and flourishes only where Christ reigns.

—Testimonies for the Church 2, 135.