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Missionary evangelist Stanley Jones writes
The Christian position is “Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy mind” - the intellectual nature; “with all thy heart” - the emotional nature; “with all thy soul” - the willing nature; and “with all thy strength” - the physical nature. The total person is to love him - mind, emotion, will, strength. But the “strength” might mean the strength of all three. Some love him with the strength of the mind and the weakness of the emotion - the intellectualist in religion; some love him with the strength of emotion and the weakness of mind - the sentimentalist in religion; some love him with the strength of the will and the weakness of emotion - the man of iron who is not very approachable. But loving God with the strength of the mind, the strength of the emotion, and the strength of the will - that makes the truly Christian and the truly balanced and the truly strong character.
From Ordering your private world by Gordon MacDonald
Posted by Kathryn Egly
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