LOVE NEEDED AND UNDERSTOOD
If I were sitting on the end of the pier on a summer day and enjoying the sunshine and the air, and someone came along and jumped into the water and got drowned “to prove his love for me”, I should find it quite unintelligible. I might be much in need of love, but an act with no relation to any of my necessities could not prove it. But if I had fallen over the pier and were drowning, and someone sprang into the water, and at the risk of his own life, saved me from death, then I should say, “Greater love hath no man than this.” I should say it intelligibly, because there would be an intelligent relation between the sacrifice which love made and the necessity from which it redeemed. J. Denny, quoted in The Epistles of John, by I. Howard Marshall
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