Happy is the person who loves you,’” Augustine says (citing Tobit 13:18), “and his friend in you, and his enemy because of you.” Happiness is loving everyone and everything in God, the immortal one who holds all mortal creatures in his hand. When one loves in this way—in this “order,” so to speak—then, “though left alone, he loses none dear to him; for all are dear in the one who cannot be lost.”
