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  1 LawGod,1 |          sincere and unhypocritical love, Metropolitan Philaret has
  2 LawGod,3 |          with a complete absence of love and of the desire to do
  3 LawGod,3 |        minor sin such as gossiping, love of attire, empty diversions,
  4 LawGod,3 |            can regain his sight and love the one who revealed the
  5 LawGod,5 |             the ten which deal with love of God and neighbors) are
  6 LawGod,5 |            those commandments about love toward God and neighbors,
  7 LawGod,6 |           given filial obedience of love. The Lord Himself affirmed
  8 LawGod,6 |           command thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, to walk
  9 LawGod,6 |             choose thou life ... to love the Lord thy God" (Dent.
 10 LawGod,8 |          were many who, filled with love and compassion, wept over
 11 LawGod,8 |           be comforted by God, with love. And those who, on the contrary,
 12 LawGod,9 |           to think about Him and to love Him, and finally forgets
 13 LawGod,9 |       all-forgiven and with as much love as ever.~
 14 LawGod,12|           knows how to evaluate and love beauty, and we see beauty
 15 LawGod,13|            therefore, for those who love their children to temper
 16 LawGod,13|           assurance of His Fatherly love and help. A man who has
 17 LawGod,17|       dangerous. This is the sin of love of money. The apostle says
 18 LawGod,17|            root of all evils is the love of money." The first danger
 19 LawGod,18|      motivated by the Gospel law of love, mercy and forgiveness.
 20 LawGod,18|             to the law of Christian love.~It very often happens in
 21 LawGod,18|        neighbors, with kindness and love. In general, the Christian
 22 LawGod,18|             s image...Hate sin, but love the sinner," St. John of
 23 LawGod,18|            in a believing Christian love, of that love about which
 24 LawGod,18|             Christian love, of that love about which the apostle
 25 LawGod,19|   relationship with his neighbor is love - and thus, he strives to
 26 LawGod,19|      Christian. And this good, this love towards neighbors must definitely
 27 LawGod,19|          the Savior commanded us to love not only those who love
 28 LawGod,19|             love not only those who love us, but also those who hate
 29 LawGod,19|            of physical help. In His love, compassion, and mercy,
 30 LawGod,19|      pointedly says, "This image of love is manifold and this command
 31 LawGod,19| participation, gratitude and mutual love. This kind of direct charity
 32 LawGod,19|             vital bonds of personal love and trust such as are formed
 33 LawGod,20|      multiplication of lawlessness, love will grow cold in many."
 34 LawGod,20|        masses, in place of Christ's love and good will. And our Savior
 35 LawGod,20|            the absence of Christian love in a person.~The situation
 36 LawGod,20|             the spirit of Christian love...~
 37 LawGod,21|            This virtue is Christian love, and it is the root principle
 38 LawGod,21|          the principle of Christian love as the basic teaching about
 39 LawGod,21|         frightened by the height of love willed by the Gospel, and
 40 LawGod,21|           ask them about matters of love and help to their suffering
 41 LawGod,22|                           Christian Love As The Basic Principle Of
 42 LawGod,22|         upon the Gospel teaching of love are insolvent. We have also
 43 LawGod,22|           established on the law of love; this law is the basis and
 44 LawGod,22|           exactly is this Christian love? In its fully developed
 45 LawGod,22|          disciples if you will have love among you" (Jn.13:39) said
 46 LawGod,22|            to all of us).~Christian love is a special feeling which
 47 LawGod,22|        draws one near to God Who is Love Itself, in the words of
 48 LawGod,22|         there is none higher than a love which is ready for self-sacrifice.
 49 LawGod,22|          self-sacrifice of Heavenly love. The Heavenly King leads
 50 LawGod,22|            commandment and ideal of love: "As I loved you, so you
 51 LawGod,22|             I loved you, so you too love one another."~Such is the
 52 LawGod,22|        ideal of self-less Christian love. It embraces everyone, not
 53 LawGod,22|             pointedly says: "If you love those who love you, what
 54 LawGod,22|               If you love those who love you, what credit is that
 55 LawGod,22|           you? For even the sinners love those who love them" (Lk.
 56 LawGod,22|          the sinners love those who love them" (Lk.6:32). By these
 57 LawGod,22|             of non-Christian, pagan love. In such egoistic love,
 58 LawGod,22|        pagan love. In such egoistic love, the main element is the
 59 LawGod,22|      something else of Christians: "Love your enemies, bless those
 60 LawGod,22|      themselves and the Christian's love seeks their salvation, even
 61 LawGod,22|             and nature of Christian love so clearly revealed as in
 62 LawGod,22|       called "the hymn of Christian love." Here, the Apostle compares
 63 LawGod,22|          Apostle compares Christian love with various spiritual gifts
 64 LawGod,22|         gifts and virtues. He calls love the most excellent path (
 65 LawGod,22|             angels, but do not have love," the Apostle says, "then
 66 LawGod,22|  self-denial and martyrdom: without love they are nothing, and only
 67 LawGod,22|          are nothing, and only from love do they acquire their worth.~"
 68 LawGod,22|          they acquire their worth.~"Love is longsuffering and merciful,
 69 LawGod,22|         good-will toward everyone.~"Love does not seek its own, is
 70 LawGod,22|          force, the power of humble love, which destroys the egoism
 71 LawGod,22|           in man's heart. This true love always seeks truth and verity
 72 LawGod,22|             obligingness. Finally, "Love covers all things, believes
 73 LawGod,22|         things, Endures all things. Love never fails."~Truly, never.
 74 LawGod,22|           will come to realization; love alone will reign "unto ages
 75 LawGod,22|             the same Apostle says, "Love is the fulfillment of the
 76 LawGod,23|             Christian marriage, the love of the partners has that
 77 LawGod,23|           by which purely Christian love is distinguished. With good
 78 LawGod,23|             and he says, "Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved
 79 LawGod,23|           deep, examined feeling of love, but through enamorousness,
 80 LawGod,23|    spiritual. Of course, passionate love, connected with each person'
 81 LawGod,23|       enters into Christian marital love. In a truly Christian marriage,
 82 LawGod,23|            however, such passionate love enters into the attachment
 83 LawGod,23|           and sister," their mutual love is distinguished by a special
 84 LawGod,23|             by word and example and love and strictness. This is
 85 LawGod,23|         their children by their own love, often helping them even
 86 LawGod,23|           they sincerely and deeply love their parents, often do
 87 LawGod,23|             they do not honor them. Love is always united with obedience.
 88 LawGod,24|           national state. Christian love is pan-human. For a Christian,
 89 LawGod,24|           his neighbor whom he must love according to the commandment
 90 LawGod,24|             the degree of mercy and love which the good Samaritan
 91 LawGod,24|             is the law of Christian love."~But if we Christians are
 92 LawGod,24|            to such an all-embracing love, then are we not compelled
 93 LawGod,24|            appeals for brotherhood, love and mutual help directly
 94 LawGod,24|          mouth they cry about their love for mankind, but cannot
 95 LawGod,24|             for mankind, but cannot love their neighbor as is necessary.
 96 LawGod,24|            have, not an artificial "love for mankind," but real love
 97 LawGod,24|         love for mankind," but real love for neighbor. For a Christian,
 98 LawGod,24|         therefore, a Christian must love everyone), and in particular,
 99 LawGod,24|          appeals for an artificial "love for mankind;" a love which
100 LawGod,24|    artificial "love for mankind;" a love which is removed from the
101 LawGod,24|         belong.~Naturally, one will love one's own family and the
102 LawGod,24|            and one loves them. This love for homeland is that Christian
103 LawGod,24|       hatred of other peoples. If I love my own people, then surely
104 LawGod,24|             then surely I must also love the Chinese, the Turks or
105 LawGod,24|            any other people. Not to love them would be non-Christian.
106 LawGod,24|        model of true patriotism, of love for one's people and its
107 LawGod,24|      especially striking example of love for his people. On one occasion,
108 LawGod,24|             these words, we see his love for his native people. This
109 LawGod,24|             his native people. This love was so great that, like
110 LawGod,24|           Crucify Him!" Thus did He love His own people with a profound
111 LawGod,24|          with a profound and moving love.~The feeling of patriotism,
112 LawGod,24|    righteousness of the pre-eminent love for one's neighbors. We
113 LawGod,24|         more we emphasize that such love and care must not be egoistic,
114 LawGod,24|            egoistic, self-enclosing love. While caring for those
115 LawGod,24|             people in his Christian love - his neighbors, and brothers
116 LawGod,25|     misfortune, a friend is known." Love for the nation is most clearly
117 LawGod,25|            from our words, then our love for the nation is poor indeed.~
118 LawGod,25|       precept, "there is no greater love than to lay down one's life
119 LawGod,26|  inheritance bred of that spirit of love by which the Church has
120 LawGod,26|          but force; not sacrificial love, but envy and hatred.~In
121 LawGod,26|        Peter said, "Honor everyone, love the brotherhood" (1 Pt.2:
122 LawGod,26|        earth. Christianity preaches love for everyone; communism
123 LawGod,26|          victory of God's truth and love. Communism is a religion
124 LawGod,27|                        The Unity of Love for God and For Neighbor~
125 LawGod,27|             obligation to God is to love Him. This commandment was
126 LawGod,27|          Testament with the words, "Love the Lord your God with all
127 LawGod,27|             Savior bound a second - love for neighbor. He said of
128 LawGod,27|           unto the first," that is, love for neighbor is like love
129 LawGod,27|           love for neighbor is like love for God. The Holy Church,
130 LawGod,27|  obligations to oneself. Therefore, love for oneself must be sacrificed
131 LawGod,27|           sacrificed in the name of love for God and neighbor. Love
132 LawGod,27|          love for God and neighbor. Love for one's neighbor takes
133 LawGod,27|      neighbor takes precedence over love for oneself, but it is subject
134 LawGod,27|           is subject to the highest love - love for God Whom we must
135 LawGod,27|       subject to the highest love - love for God Whom we must love
136 LawGod,27|           love for God Whom we must love most of all.~There is a
137 LawGod,27|      contemporary theory that great love for God hinders one's love
138 LawGod,27|          love for God hinders one's love for neighbors. The proponents