Love, according to Him, was stronger than hate, or commandments or preaching, or the devil himself.

If He saved souls at all, He saved them by loving them whatever they were, and I reckon He meant us to do the same.

What do you make of the woman taken in adultery, and the woman who wiped His feet with her hair?
Or of Peter?
or of Judas?
He saved Peter by loving him when he thought he ought to have the Ten Commandments and hell fire thrown at his head and I reckon He'd have saved Judas by giving him that sop-token of love if he hadn't had a soul that could love nothing but himself." "What is love, Langton ?" asked Peter, after a pause.
The other looked at him curiously, and laughed.

"Ask the Bishops," he said.

"Don't ask me.