Love Wins

I keep seeing this around. It's on my calendar. It's painted on a rock. It crops up.

I've been thinking about it. It doesn't offend me. Why would it? I have no objection to the idea that love wins.

I was shopping the other day and I saw a shirt that said "All you need is love." I almost bought it so that I could embroider "and wisdom" after it. Just cause I thought it would be funny.

Because of course love wins, but only when it is conjoined to truth.

Love isn't love without the wisdom to know how to love.

"And give Thou to Thy servant a heart that hears to judge Thy people, to understand between good and evil." 1 Kings 3:9

"What is love without wisdom but folly?" Conjugial Love 183:4

"When love approaches wisdom and conjoins itself therewith, then love becomes love; and when wisdom in turn approaches love and conjoins itself therewith, then wisdom becomes wisdom. Love truly conjugial is nothing else than the conjunction of love and wisdom." Conjugial Love 65

"He therefore, who looks with the face to the Lord receives wisdom from Him, and through wisdom love; but he who looks backwards from the Lord receives love and not wisdom, and lovewithout wisdom is love from man and not from the Lord. And this love, because it conjoins itself with falsities, does not acknowledge God, but itself as a god." Conjugial Love 444:6

And on and on it goes. There are innumerable passages about love needing to be conjoined to wisdom, for without wisdom love becomes evil. And yes, evil can win. But not really. Not for long.

Love must be conjoined with wisdom.

Love and wisdom together win.

“The conjugial union of one man with one wife is the precious jewel of human life and the repository of the Christian religion" CL 457