“Before us [is] a new law of love. Love is benevolence. Benevolence is giving one’s self; self-sacrifice for others; losing my life that others may find life; giving up my liberty that other men’s liberty may be increased; denying myself extravagant and useless expenditure that the nakedness of the naked may be clothed, and the hunger and thirst of the needy may be filled; mutual self-sacrifice for each other’s sake.”
A.T. Pierson (1837-1911) in The Heart of the Gospel: Sermons on the Life-Changing Power of the Good News (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1996) 447.