“It is natural to feel fear and insecurity when confronted with the radical demands of the Christian commitment. But enveloped in the lived truths of God’s furious love, insecurity is swallowed up in the solidity of agape, and anguish and fear give way to hope and desire. The Christian becomes aware that God’s appeal for unlimited generosity from His people has been preceded from His side by a limitless love, a love so intent upon a response that He has empowered us to respond through the gift of His own Holy Spirit. In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for out sins. 1 John 4.10.”
Brennan Manning in The Furious Longing of God (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 2009) 120.