From Chapter Five, Why You Don't Have to Be Sure You Have the Right Motivations: Or, How Love Seeks the Good.
The key point my student needed to realize was simple but powerful: it's okay to do the best thing. After all, if your desire is to do the best thing, then your motivation is good enough! [...]
For example, to love your neighbors means to seek their good. So it would be perverse to wonder whether you had the wrong motivation for seeking their good. If what you're trying to accomplish really is good for your neighbor, then that's good enough. For Christian love is about the good of your neighbor, not how good your heart is. (It's not about you.) The difficult part is knowing what really is good for your neighbor. [...] So that's what a loving person worries about -- "Is what I'm trying to do really good for this person?" -- rather than worrying about whether you're doing it out of some selfish motivation.
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