Signs of the Times

The Christian Century

J. Irwin Miller, former President National Council of Churches, U.S.A. in The Christian Century
[Reprinted by permission. © 1964 by
Christian Century Foundation, Chicago.]

Fear has no power to restrain violence.... More often than not, fear releases and provokes violence—for what is more dangerous than an unreasonably frightened man or animal?...

Violence cannot be held in check by fear, but it can be restrained by love. When we love as our Lord has commanded us, we care even more about what happens to those around us than about what happens to ourselves.

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