Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love,…

Philip Yancey
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Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other. ✨ Philip Yancey (2010). The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide, p.61, Harper Collins
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