A command to love is not a light thing, and both law and gospel take the weight seriously. When I translated it, I thought they must have made a mistake. But no, even as strict a moralist as Augustine used those words deliberately. If our love of God is real and profound, then that is all that matters. If everything we do is grounded in a total love of God, then we do not have to worry about commandments at all.
Right actions flow irresistibly from that love.
If we get the love of God right, then all else follows. And because I have met so many people whose lives seem to be set in that mode, I have a vision of what such a life might be like. It leads me to a point of relaxing and handing it all to God who is in charge anyway. Archbishop Michael Peers is Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.