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'The Beloved'
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2024
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Since God is love, so too is Christ. But what is love? It is not enough to say that love is the giving of oneself as Christ our Lord did upon the cross for this act is but an outward expression of love and the same act could be not love but a crime. What then is love if God is love? It is not the urge we have for something we do not possess for God has all and more than all. He is infinity, and yet he loves.
Perhaps, to know its nature, we should begin with ourselves, for all our knowledge of God is known by analogy with ourselves. We have such things as qualities. He is these things. Whatever we obtain, that we obtain from him. He is that and more. He is knowledge; he is power, wisdom, prudence, peace, love. We have them as passing gifts but we know them best in our own souls.
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- Copyright © 1948 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers
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1 Amor dicitur illud quod est prinoipium motus tendentii in finem amatum.' I-II. 26. 1.
2 Cf St. Francis de Sales. On the Love of God, Bk 1.
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