It's not hard to love a meadow of flowers or a clear, reflecting lake. But when the environment appears spoiled and polluted, we shouldn't stop loving it. We need to reflect the divine Love that restores and regenerates.
"'The time has come,' announced a Communist Party publication [in the Soviet Union], 'to put an end to a suspicious and unfavorable attitude toward believers and their ideals of care for people, love and moral self-improvement.