"Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see Him not, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory." -1 PETER i. 8.
"If ye love me, keep my commandments." -JOHN xiv. 15.
BLEST be Thy love, dear Lord,
That taught us this sweet way,
Only to love Thee for Thyself,
And for that love obey.
-J. AUSTIN.
TO love God is to love His character. For instance, God is Purity. And to be pure thought and look, to turn away from unhallowed books and conversation, to abhor the moments in which we have not been pure, is to love God. God is Love; and to love men till private attachments have expanded into a philanthropy which embraces all, -at last even the evil and enemies with compassion, that is to love God. God is Truth. To be true, to hate every form of falsehood, to live a brave, true, real life, -that is to love God. God is Infinite; and to love the boundless, reaching on from grace to grace, adding charity to faith, and rising upwards ever to see the Ideal still above us, and to die with it unattained, aiming insatiably to be perfect even as the Father is perfect, -that is to love God.
-F. W. ROBERTSON
