Moral obligation is not meaningless apart from God. Specific moral obligations that transcend immediate interests can be defined without reference to divine commands or an ultimate center of value. Rather, God provides a reality in which a comprehensive unity of moral meanings is conceivable. It makes sense to seek genuine harmony between persons and groups, rather than to manage their conflicts prudently or to surrender to superior force, because human aspirations and values can be unified by the value they have in relationship to God. This unity both completes and transcends the partial resolutions of differences we anticipate in nature and history, and it impels those who apprehend it in faith to seek forms of justice that go beyond present expectations, even when that search involves considerable risk to themselves. The reality of God means that love, and not prudence, is the law of life.