To Love the Lord my God with all my heart, with all my soul, with all my strength, and with all my mind and to Love my neighbour as myself.
Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
Imagine a world where we are known not for what we hate, but by what we love. Now, that's beautiful.
When will we learn that human beings are of infinite value because they have been created in the image of God, and that it is a blasphemy to treat them as if they were less than this and to do so ultimately recoils on those who do this? In dehumanizing others, they are themselves dehumanized. Perhaps oppression dehumanizes the oppressor as much as, if not more than, the oppressed. They need each other to become truly free, to become human.
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