Anyone who is in touch with his own feelings and has experienced unselfed love knows that its source is something outside a mortal selfhood. More than emotion, more even than human affection, this love impelling one to forget himself in blessing another begins to approximate the divine.
The author of I John, in his exhortation to brotherly love, reminds us that the love we have for each other has a direct bearing on our understanding of God and our relationship to Him: "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love." I John 4:7, 8;
And Mary Baker Eddy, who has taught many to heal through utilizing divine Love, speaks both of the human quality of love and of the Love that is God Himself. Our Leader writes in a short article titled "Love": "What a word! I am in awe before it. Over what worlds on worlds it hath range and is sovereign! the underived, the incomparable, the infinite All of good, the alone God, is Love." And she describes its expression in human experience as, among other things, "the gentle hand opening the door that turns toward want and woe, sickness and sorrow, and thus lighting the dark places of earth." Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 249-250;
