{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110904.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110904.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110904.htm","text":"How love does not only belong to God but is God.\nFinally so highly is the virtue of love extolled that the blessed Apostle John declares that it not only belongs to God but that it is God, saying: \u201cGod is love: he therefore that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.\u201d 1979 For so far do we see that it is divine, that we find that what the Apostle says is plainly a living truth in us: \u201cFor the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost Who dwelleth in us.\u201d 1980 For it is the same thing as if he said that God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost Who dwelleth in us: who also, when we know not what we should pray for, \u201cmakes intercession for us with groanings that cannot be uttered: But He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what the Spirit desireth, for He asketh for the saints according to God.\u201d 1981","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Wor...","type":"page"}