John 13:34-35 (NRSV) — Love
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I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
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I am not writing this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you might have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers. Indeed, in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. I appeal to you, then, be imitators of me. For this reason I sent you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ Jesus, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
Neal A. MaxwellLove is the only answer, as Thomas Merton points out, to the searching question asked by Gandhi when he said: “How can he who thinks he possesses absolute truth be fraternal?”
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.