Opinions
Love yourself for God’s sake
By Brandon Dykstra | September 22In his devotion “On Loving God,” Bernard of Clairvaux writes of four “degrees” of love: (1) one loves oneself for one’s own sake, (2) one loves God for one’s own sake, (3) one loves God for God’s sake, (4) one loves oneself for God’s sake. What’s curious about this formulation is the ...