Do you love God? Wait a moment. Wait a moment before you answer, and think, because you are in danger of perjuring yourselves. Quite frankly, I’m deeply suspicious of people who are always running around saying how much they love God. You see, I remember the words of our Lord: "You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you when he said, ‘This people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.’" 

I am confronted with the fact that such a man as Saint Paul was constantly tortured by the fact that he didn't love God, and that he was separated from Him. Saint Augustine was always plagued by the truth that he didn’t really want God to be God, and therefore he didn’t really love Him. Martin Luther was the victim of incessant feelings of guilt because he could not say that h…