What is it that moves any of us if not some kind of love? Consider even the most shameful deeds (adulteries, villainy, murders, all kinds of lust). Are they not all the work of some sort of love? Should we then be told, “Don’t love anything?” Of course not. If you did not love anything, you would be lifeless, dead, detestable, miserable. Go ahead and love but be careful what you love.

—Commentary on Psalm 31.2.5