Human love lives by uncontrolled and uncontrollable dark desires; spiritual loves lives in the clear light of service ordered by the truth. Human love produces human subjections, dependence, constraint; spiritual love creates freedom of the brethren under the Word. Human love breeds hothouse flowers; spiritual love creates the fruits that grow healthily in accord with God’s good will in the rain and storm and sunshine of God’s outdoors.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer in “Life Together” HarperSanFrancisco, 1954 p37
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