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Love God Better, Love Others Better

Tripp and Lane (citing C.S. Lewis)

“When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest at all.” Rightly ordered love expands capacity; disordered love eventually shrinks it.

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Rightly ordered love for God increases, rather than decreases, love for people.

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