God’s love in Christ is wider than the breach your sin has made with God; it is long enough to reach back into your past and forward into an eternal future; it is high enough to bring you to God; and it is so deep, it will never run dry (see Eph. 3:18). In Christ, God loves sinners.
— Michael Lawrence (b. 1966), Pastor, Theologe und Autor
Related Bible passage: EPH.3.18
Topics: Love, Grace & Redemption, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit
Occasions: Encouragement
Michael Lawrence
Michael Lawrence (* 1966) ist ein US-amerikanischer reformiert-baptistischer Theologe und Pastor, der nach langjährigem Dienst in Washington, D.C., seit 2010 die Hinson Baptist Church in Portland, Oregon, leitet. Er steht in Verbindung mit Netzwerken wie The Gospel Coalition und 9Marks für das Anliegen, akademisch fundierte biblische Theologie für die praktische Gemeindearbeit und Seelsorge nutzbar zu machen. Für Bibelleser bietet er Orientierung darin, die gesamte Heilige Schrift als zusammenhängende, auf Jesus Christus ausgerichtete Heilsgeschichte zu verstehen.
All quotes by Michael Lawrence (18)
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
Henri Nouwen
It wasn't the nails that held Jesus to the cross. It was love.
Max Lucado
To love a person means to see them as God meant them to be.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I ask myself: what does hell mean? I maintain: it is the inability to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A drop of love is worth more than an ocean of reason.
Blaise Pascal
Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.
Craig Groeschel
The world consists of nothing but opportunities for love.
Søren Kierkegaard