Faith and Love Blessed compiles Ellen G. White's counsels on the twin pillars of Christian experience—faith in God and love toward others. This devotional work demonstrates that genuine faith produces love, while true love springs from faith in Christ. White shows these virtues as inseparable—faith without love becomes cold orthodoxy; love without faith deteriorates into mere sentimentalism. Chapters address faith's various aspects: justifying faith accepting Christ's righteousness, sanctifying faith enabling obedience, living faith evidenced in works. Love sections cover love to God expressed through obedience, love to brethren demonstrated in unity and forbearance, love to lost souls motivating missionary work. The compilation emphasizes that faith and love together prepare believers for Heaven, where faith becomes sight and love perfected.
Essential for understanding faith and love's relationship. Powerful for those emphasizing doctrine without love or love without truth. Anyone developing balanced Christian character needs this integration.
“Love is of God. The unconverted heart cannot originate or produce this plant of heavenly growth.”
“Faith is the hand by which the soul takes hold upon the divine offers of grace and mercy.”