[From Part I Chapter III.B, " Love is a Matter of Conscience "] The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. (1 Timothy 1:5 ESV) “If one were to indicate and describe in one simple word the victory Christianity has won over the world, or even more accurately, the victory in which it has more than overcome the world… I know of nothing briefer, but also nothing more decisive, than this: it has made every human relation between man and man a relationship of conscience. Christianity has not wanted to hurl governments from the throne in order to set itself on the throne; in an external sense it has never striven for place in the world, for it is not of this world…. [Just as if a man] had a divine fluid in his arteries instead of blood, so does Christianity want to breathe eternal life, the divine, into the human race. For that reason Christianity has been called a nation of priests, and for that reason when con...
(or, A Fragment of Theology)