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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

— Jonathan Edwards (theologian)

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Jonathan Edwards (theologian)

About Jonathan Edwards (theologian)

Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) was a colonial American Congregational preacher and theologian.