No Greater Love Quotes

“Delightfully, in God’s great kindness, Christian friendship isn’t just a diagnostic tool—it’s also therapeutic. I don’t just need my friends to tell me when I need to walk away from sin. I also need their arms around me when I’ve made that turn.”
― Rebecca McLaughlin, No Greater Love: A Biblical Vision for Friendship

“When Jesus calls His followers to love each other just like He loves them, He's not just going with the natural grain of friendship. He is calling people who might never have gone near each other into sacrificial-love relationships.”
― Rebecca McLaughlin, No Greater Love: A Biblical Vision for Friendship

“We need to form deep friendships, so that we can fight the battles Jesus calls us to with comrades bu our sides. We need them there to brace us for the onslaught, stoke our joy and celebrate the victories along the way. But we also need our friends, so that when we slump down under the weight of all our frailty and failure, there will be someone there to ask us, "Are you crying?" and we'll have the courage to say, "Yes.”
― Rebecca McLaughlin, No Greater Love: A Biblical Vision for Friendship

“But when we reach the point of disillusionment, Jesus will be there awaiting us with arms stretched wide. When we give and get forgiveness from our friends, we're tasting something of His love for us: the love of which there is no greater, the love that drove Him to lay down His life for His friends.”
― Rebecca McLaughlin, No Greater Love: A Biblical Vision for Friendship

“We're not called to blend in or to check out, we're called to shine.”
― Rebecca McLaughlin, No Greater Love: A Biblical Vision for Friendship

“But she can call me to my better self, because - in God's kindness - she is part of making it.”
― Rebecca McLaughlin, No Greater Love: A Biblical Vision for Friendship

“In modern Western culture, we are primed to think of friendship as a nice-to-have, while sexual and romantic love and parent-child love are vital to our thriving. But Jesus flips this script. Instead of telling His disciples that they must get married and have children, Jesus tells His followers that they must love each other, even to the point of death. When Jesus said there was no greater love than laying down one’s life for one’s friends, He wasn’t being hyperbolic or naïve. Instead, He was inscribing the good news of His unfathomable love for us onto Christian friendship with indelible ink.”
― Rebecca McLaughlin, No Greater Love: A Biblical Vision for Friendship