“Affective love is
the element of tenderness present in love. You should love our Lord
tenderly and affectionately, like a child that cannot bear to be
parted from its mother and cries out, 'Mamma, Mamma,” whenever she
is about to leave it. Likewise a heart that loves our Lord cannot
endure his absence, and owes it to itself to hold fast to him with
this affective love, which gives rise to effective love.” (9
February 1653; SV IX, 593)
