You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason why he is to be loved.1 As for how he is to be loved, there is to be no limit to that love. Is this sufficient answer? Perhaps, but only for a wise man. As I am indebted, however, to the unwise also,2 it is customary to add something for them after saying enough for the wise.3 Therefore for the sake of those who are slow to grasp ideas I do not find it burdensome to treat of the same