To love God means to
love the highest possible good which we can imagine in all things.
People often say, “I
do not understand love of God, what is love of God?” It would be more exact to
say, “cannot understand love in this world without love of God.”
Real love of God is a moral feeling based on a clear
understanding of His high, superior being; love of God coincides with love of
virtue, truth, and kindness.
— William Ellery Channing
A person who understand the law but who is far from the
love of God is like a bank official who has keys for the inside of his building
but not the key for the front door.
— The Talmud
The commandments of God should be followed because of love
of God, not because of fear of God.
— The Talmud
If you love a person
without loving God, which is the goodness inside of him, then you plant the
seeds for future disappointments and sufferings with this love.
Those who say that
they love God but dislike their neighbors are lying to people; those who love
their neighbors but don’t love God are lying to themselves.
Only perfection is
worth complete love. In order to feel complete love, we can either delude ourselves
that some imperfect object of our love is “perfection” or we can love
perfection, which is God.
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