To the faith that "God is love" and that love is the power that can save the world, many give the jaunty answer "What nonsense!"

The root of the matter (if we want a stable world) is a very simple and old-fashioned thing, a thing so simple that I am almost ashamed to mention it, for fear of the derisive smile with which wise cynics will greet my words. The thing I mean is love, Christian love. / "Christian love." But trying to have Christian love, without its source in the revelation of a God of love in Christ, is trying to create something out of nothing.