“While I love my God the most, I deem
That I can never love you overmuch:
I love Him more, so let me love you, too.
Yea, as I understand it, love is such,
I cannot love you if I love not Him;
I cannot love Him if I love not you.
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“Where am I going to? Never mind;
Just follow the sign board that says ‘Be kind,’
And do the duty that nearest lies,
For that is the pathway to Paradise.”
Jesus taught that Christian perfection is perfection in loving. He said we are to love our enemies and pray for them that persecute us, that we may be sons of our Father, who is in heaven. The he added, “Ye therefore shall be perfect.” Jesus also gave some specific suggestions of the working of this law of love, showing what it includes. It was the teaching of the times that men should treat others as others treated them. “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth,” was the way it was put. But Jesus said, “That is not the meaning of love. I say unto you, Resist not him that is evil; but whosoever smiteth thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.”
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