Unfathomable love

Artist: Veniamin Ivanovich Borisov

Image from Wikimedia Commons

We all know this, don't we? And yet, we forget it. Or perhaps we can't quite see our way clear to believe it:

God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I wonder how our lives might be different if all of us who claim to follow Christ managed to remember what Bonhoeffer said here more consistently.
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