Today’s quote is from Bailey’s meditation on the first petition of the Lord’s Prayer in Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes. (The Karl G. Kuhen quote within the quote is from the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament.)

God is holy love, and he faces unholy nature. Yet, in his holiness, God is able to reach out to love that unholy nature. Again Kuhen writes, “therefore the antithesis between God and man consists in the very love which overcomes it.”