DLW 34, 35, 37 - Love and Wisdom in the Divine; DLW 39 - Love and Wisdom in People

DLW 34

. . . because the Divine Being is Divine love,
and the Divine expression is Divine wisdom,
therefore these . . . are in a distinct combination one.

We say that they are in a distinct combination one
because love and wisdom are two distinct attributes,
but so united that love is a property of wisdom
and wisdom a property of love.
For love has its being in wisdom,
and wisdom has its expression in love.

DLW 35

Divine love and wisdom are one
for the reason that their union is reciprocal,
and a reciprocal union produces oneness.

DLW 37

The Divine providence in reforming, regenerating
and saving people
partakes equally of Divine love and Divine wisdom.
More Divine love than Divine wisdom,
or more Divine wisdom than Divine love,
cannot reform, regenerate or save a person.
Divine love wishes to save all people,
but it can do so only through Divine wisdom,
and Divine wisdom encompasses all the laws
by which salvation is made possible.
Love cannot transcend those laws,
since Divine love and Divine wisdom are one
and operate in union.

DLW 39

Love and wisdom in a person
appear as two separate attributes
for the reason that the faculty of understanding in him
can be raised into the light of heaven,
but not the faculty of loving
except to the extent
that the person does as he understands.
Consequently, any measure of apparent wisdom
that is not united with the love proper to wisdom
sinks back to the love with which it is united,
which may be a love of something other than wisdom,
even a love of insanity.
For a person may know from wisdom
that he ought to do this or that,
and still not do it,
because he does not love it.
However, to the extent that he does do from love
what wisdom teaches,
to the same extent he is an image of God.