Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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Zum Autor"Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature when it does so, it is good and happy."
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"Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about."
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