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If God loves human beings and seeks to relate to them because he is drawn to something unique about them, then his love must be exclusive and cannot be universal.

— Meir Soloveichik

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✓Similar Perspectives

If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

— Margaret of Valois

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.

— Charles Williams

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

— Saint Augustine

We are so accustomed to love on a human level that we find loving God for Himself either impossible or beyond our capabilities. We tend to love those who appeal to us, render us a service, or are good to us. In the degree they perform these various services, we love them.

— Mother Angelica

God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.

— Meir Soloveichik

I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.

— Jose Saramago

Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.

— Meir Soloveichik

How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?

— Phylicia Rashad

✗Opposing Perspectives

There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is modified by the different degrees of intelligence in different beings and creatures.

— John James Audubon