The Importance of Love in Moral Life

Our aim then is to imitate the life of Christ himself. We are not to copy Christ, as for example a student will copy a great master in an art gallery. We are rather as we said to have the spirit of Christ in us. This being understood, we now come back to the law that should govern all of our moral life. Our blessed Lord said, now shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and thy whole mind. The second is like to this, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Notice that all the ten commandments were summed up in love, and you never can have love except by and to a person who is opposite you