04-28

The reason the wisdom and love within us seem to be
two separate things is that our ability to understand
can be raised into heaven’s light, while our ability to
love cannot, except to the extent that we act according
to our understanding. So any trace of apparent wisdom
that is not united to our love for wisdom relapses into
the love with which it is united. This may not be a love
for wisdom, and may even be a love for insanity. We are
perfectly capable of knowing, from our wisdom, that we
ought to do one thing or another, and then of not doing
it because we have no love for it. However, to the extent
that we do the bidding of our wisdom, from love, we are
images of God.
—Divine Love and Wisdom 39