Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love." (Jonathan Edwards (theologian))

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards (theologian)

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