Showing posts with label Love is not coercive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Love is not coercive. Show all posts

12 July 2014

A Contemplative Moment: Love is not Coercive




“And because God's love [God's very Self] is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left free not to love him - we are free to resist it, deny it, crucify it finally, which we do again and again. This is our terrible freedom, which love refuses to overpower so that, in this, the greatest of all powers, God's power, is itself powerless.”
 
Frederick Buechner