The greatest solvent in the world is Love. The Love referred to is divine, not human. It is God, whose nature and essence are clearly defined in Christian Science. As we learn to distinguish the product of sensualism, miscalled love, from the Love which is God, we advance in the understanding of divine Love, in which, as children of God, "we live, and move, and have our being."
Christian Science makes clear the functions and the effects of Love. The Love which is divine is impersonal, pure, universal, impartial, and inexhaustible. Human love may be personal, impure, limited, partial, and temporal. The distinction is clear: either the human or the divine is in ascendancy. If we cherish the latter, we shall better understand man's inseparability from Love, or God.
The Apostle John declared (I John 4:8), "God is love." One who accepts this definition will desire daily to put off a false sense of love, just as he would wish to part with an idol of idolatry. To have one God means to have one sense of Love, namely, the spiritual. Human love is legitimate only when it is anchored in the divine, when its motive is impersonal and pure.
