Why should we love Augustine?

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Love, after all, has made you come [to church]; but love of what? If love of me, that is fine; for I do want to be loved by you—but I do not want to be loved just for myself. Because I love you in Christ, please, therefore, love me back in Christ, and may our mutual love groan to God: for that love is the groaning of the Dove.

Augustine of Hippo, Homilies on the Gospel of John 1-40 (c. 406-20), trans. Edmund Hill, ed. Allan D. Fitzgerald, The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, Volume 12 (Hyde Park NY: New City Press, 2009), 6.1, p. 121.
 
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