Fear Quote by Thomas Talbott

““But herein also lies an irony, for there is more than one kind of power and one kind of authority. The power of the cross is not the power of the sword; it is the transforming power of love. And the Christian message in its purity is not a message of fear, but of hope and love, the very love that casts out fear. Accordingly, by its willingness to embrace the power of the sword and to employ fear as a means of social control—by its willingness to embrace the weapons of this age, in other words—the imperial church managed only to undermine its own moral and spiritual authority.””

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