And it is at the centre that the real life of the Spirit aims first; thence flowing out to the circumference--even to its most harsh, dark, difficult and rugged limits--in unbroken streams of generous love.
Such love is creative.

It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself on the attractive.

It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed, and has as its special vocation--a vocation identical with that of the great artist--the "loving of the unlovely into lovableness." Thus does it participate according to its measure in the work of Divine incarnation.

This does not mean a maudlin optimism, or any other kind of sentimentality; for as we delve more deeply into life, we always leave sentimentality behind.

But it does mean a love which is based on a deep understanding of man's slow struggles and of the unequal movements of life, and is expressed in both arduous and highly skillful actions.