{"id":7766,"date":"2018-12-24T23:18:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T03:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7766"},"modified":"2018-12-24T23:18:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T03:18:48","slug":"the-power-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7766","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Curry-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Curry-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Curry-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Curry-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>I hope you recognize love as the most powerful force for personal change and for changing the world around us.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, we live in scary times.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, people are hurting.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, people are hurting one another.\u00c2\u00a0 But anger is not the key; revenge is not the answer.\u00c2\u00a0 The way of love &#8212; the love and power of God &#8212; is the key to our hope and to our future.<\/p>\n<p>The message of God is very simple.\u00c2\u00a0 Love one another.\u00c2\u00a0 Take care of one another.\u00c2\u00a0 Take care of creation.\u00c2\u00a0 And while you&#8217;re at it, love me &#8212; love God.\u00c2\u00a0 Do that and you will find your way.\u00c2\u00a0 That is the core of the gospel.\u00c2\u00a0 That is the only sermon that matters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Michael Curry,\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Power of Love,\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>p. xvi.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Leith\u00c3\u00b6fe, Germany, Christmas 1996<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you recognize love as the most powerful force for personal change and for changing the world around us.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, we live in scary times.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, people are hurting.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, people are hurting one another.\u00c2\u00a0 But anger is not the key; revenge is not the answer.\u00c2\u00a0 The way of love &#8212; the love and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-love","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7768,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions\/7768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}