““Jesus Christ does not only change our idea of what God is and what we might become: he also changes our idea of what love is. For 'the love of God in Jesus Christ our Lord' is not a love which is soft and yielding and emotional. This love is diamond-hard and costly; it is a giving of yourself to others; it is a refusal to hate, whatever the cost; it is a refusal to be moved from what you know in your heart to be good and true and right. Love is quite often a kind of dying. It demands obedience and loyalty, and it may well encompass anguish, pain and even death.””
![“[Knowing God]... call it love, yes, only that can sound too emotional, or call it faith, and that can sound too cerebral. And what is it? Both, and neither... [its] the decision to be faithful, the patient refusal of easy gratifications... of Jesus' prayer in Gethsemane and on the cross, that…” quote by Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b2c/rowan-williams-8580_christ_knowing-god-call-it-love-yes-only-that-c_2271375.jpg)
