Augustine again—this time on transformation and love

Knowing God cannot be divorced from the transformation of the person into someone who is godly, and thus is capable of knowing God. The key quality for Augustine turns out to be love, since God is himself love. It is love that makes it possible for us to live as God wills to fulfill God’s law, a view Augustine memorably expresses in the epigram “Love and do what you will.”—Evans, A History of Western Philosophy, 144