The Holy Spirit A B Simpson Chapter 17 – Spirit of Love a III. Natural love is based upon the attractive qualities of its object; divine love springs from something within, and is the outflow of an irresistible impulse in itself. Mere human love is attracted by the goodness and loveliness of the one it loves, fancied or real. But divine love can seize upon the most unlovely, can love it into loveliness, and can keep on loving through an impulse in its own heart, when everything in the circumstances would render it impossible. And so, “God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”