Genuine Love – Thomas Merton

Love is a word that has been emptied of content by our materialistic society. In our world “love” is reduced to the infatuation celebrated in popular songs. Genuine love cannot be taken for granted, and least of all today. But we Christians seem to take it for granted. We seem to feel that we “love one another” and that we know very well what love is. We tend to act as if things were so well regulated by love in our own household that we could safely forget about it and go out to preach to others. Hence we are not worried about love, so much as about doctrine. (Disputed Questions, p. 143)