Emphasis Preaching Journal

In one of the many philosophies he had explored during his college years he had come across the idea that the opposite of love was not hatred or anger but fear. The idea had startled him at the time, but over the years he had come to know its wisdom. For anger and hatred are malignancies that grow out of fear, as deadly to the well-being of the soul as cancer can be to the physical self. He had been searching for himself back then, reading everything he could find. This idea about love and fear remained one of the most powerful he had encountered.