A general stability and convergence theorem is established for generalized solutions of a family of nonlinear evolution equations with non-local diffusion in one space dimension. As the first application we justify the motion by crystalline energy as a limit of regularized problems. As the sec-ond application we show the convergence of crystalline algorithm for general curvature flow equations. Our general results are also important to explain that geometric evolution of crystals depends continuously on temperature even if facets appear.