God commands us to love him with all our heart, with all our mind, and with all our soul. However, since in this life we can know God only partially and dimly, we can also love him only partially and feebly in this life. Perfect love is reserved for life in heaven. Augustine also maintained this when he said, “All believers should long to appear before God without spot or wrinkle. But since the best and most perfect we can be in this life is no more than to increase daily in these matters, we will
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