Interesting quote on love from Madonna at the premiere of her new film “W.E”, a biopic of Edward VIII’s lover and then wife, Wallis Simpson:
“This movie shows that there is no such thing as perfect love, that all love requires compromise or sacrifice”.
“This IS love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1 John 4 v 10).
In other words—there is such a thing as perfect love. It requires infinite sacrifice, and insists on no compromise. It saw the Son of God come into the world and die on a tree, refusing to compromise and come down from the cross, ignoring those who told him not to bother, insisting on staying there as a sacrifice, our sacrifice, sacrificing all he had and was in order to give us all he has and is.
The cross shows us that there IS such a thing as perfect love.
Carl is Publisher and Co-CEO at The Good Book Company and is a member of Life Church Hackbridge in south London. He is the bestselling author of The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross and God's Big Promises Bible Storybook, and also serves as Series Editor of the God's Word For You series. Before joining TGBC, he worked as a journalist and then as a teacher, and pastored a congregation in Hull. Carl is married to Lizzie, and they have two children. He studied history at Oxford University.
