Love does not inquire

Love does not inquire into the character of the
recipient but it asks what he needs. It does not
love him because he is such-and-such a person but
because he is there. In all this it is quite the
opposite of natural love: it "does not seek its own"
. It does not perform the characteristic natural
impulse of love and life. Therefore it is basically
independent of the conduct of the other person;
it is not conditional but absolute. It wants nothing
for itself but only for others. Therefore it is also
not vulnerable. It never 'reacts" but is always
"spontaneous", emerging by its own strength - rather,
from the power of God. Love is the real God-likeness
of man for which he has been created. In so far as
love is in man he really resembles God and shows
himself to be the child of God.
- Emil Brunner