Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor.
Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.
Love is my religion - I could die for it.
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
If you look from my point of view, that's what Christians strive for - love from God.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
The only sin is mediocrity.