Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.

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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.

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To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.

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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

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And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. it is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept.

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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

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When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.

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Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

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You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.

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In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.

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