AMAZING LOVE, HOW CAN IT BE? The Divine Lover still sorrows when his love is unrequited, and pines for our continuing, deepening, maturing
adoration. Love, then, is the first mark of a true and living church. Indeed, it is not a living church at all unless it is a loving church. The Christian life is essentially a love-relationship to Jesus Christ. (From "What Christ Thinks of the Church" (revised and
illustrated edn. Milton Keynes: Word UK, 1990), p. 23.)