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Love is the actuating principle in the divine mind. "God is love." Love moved him to create the world; a greater love moved him to redeem it. The whole mission, and work, and sufferings of Christ, were from love; the zeal that consumed him was from that, and from that the zeal of his followers ought to be. It is only a zeal springing from love, and manifesting itself in self-sacrifice, that can make the professed followers of Christ really like him.
Mark Hopkins — Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons, with a Discourse on President Garfield (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887), XVI, "Zeal," p. 289
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