“Agape is not a weak, passive love. It is love in action. Agape is love seeking to preserve and create community. It is insistence on community even when one seeks to break it. Agape is a willingness to sacrifice in the interest of mutuality. Agape is a willingness to go to any length to restore community. It doesn't stop at the first mile, but it goes the second mile to restore community. It is a willingness to forgive, not seven times, but seventy times seven to restore community.” LoveUnderstandingCommunityGood WillAgapeMutualitySacrificingGood Will Toward Men Book:Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“Agape is disinterested love. It is a love in which the individual seeks not his own good, but the good of his neighbor (I Cor. 10:24). Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. It is an entirely "neighbor-regarding concern for others," which discovers the neighbor in every man it meets. Therefore agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.” LoveUnderstandingConcernNonviolenceGood WillNeighborsAgapeGood Will Toward Men Book:Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story