Love a Universal Truth
“There is one other fundamental difference between love and hate. Love is always a refuge. Hate is never a refuge. Only a mentally sick person can find refuge in his hates. But love is the enduring sanctuary of life. Life may rob you of many things. It often does. But it can never bereave us of love itself. That remains.”
Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, rabbinic leader, from a December 22, 1940, sermon.
Over the years I have spoken and written a lot about love, true love. As a Christian I believe in the power of Love. Martin Luther King Jr. said,
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is a universal truth everyone in the world understands love. The apostle Paul wrote what I think is the most comprehensible definition of love when he wrote,
Irrespective of who you are, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Atheist or those of other faiths you cannot deny that unconditional love is the ideal by which mankind must live by in order to have a society that is safe for all.
When I was a in my teens I saw a movie musical called “Goodby Mr. Chips” it’s theme song “In the morning of my life” has stayed with me all these years. It states,
From the Musical Good by Mr chips
Love embodies the statement of Jesus who gave the world another universal truth when he said,
“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets” Matthew 7:12.
Are you showing love to those around you?
Are you doing to others what you would have them do to you?
Please think about it.
“There is one other fundamental difference between love and hate. Love is always a refuge. Hate is never a refuge. Only a mentally sick person can find refuge in his hates. But love is the enduring sanctuary of life. Life may rob you of many things. It often does. But it can never bereave us of love itself. That remains.”
Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, rabbinic leader, from a December 22, 1940, sermon.
Over the years I have spoken and written a lot about love, true love. As a Christian I believe in the power of Love. Martin Luther King Jr. said,
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is a universal truth everyone in the world understands love. The apostle Paul wrote what I think is the most comprehensible definition of love when he wrote,
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy,
it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails....
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.
But the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a,13.
Hate will not conquer the world. All of those throughout the centuries who have attempted to rule through violence and hate have fallen.Irrespective of who you are, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Atheist or those of other faiths you cannot deny that unconditional love is the ideal by which mankind must live by in order to have a society that is safe for all.
When I was a in my teens I saw a movie musical called “Goodby Mr. Chips” it’s theme song “In the morning of my life” has stayed with me all these years. It states,
In the Morning of My Life
by Leslie Bricusse
In the morning of my life
I will look to the Sunrise
At a moment in my life
When the world is new.
And the Question
I shall ask only God can answer.
Will I be brave and strong and true,
Will I fill the world with love my whole life through?
Will I fill the world with love my whole life through?
In the eveniung of my life
I will look to the sunset
At a moment in my life
When my life is through.
And the question I shall ask only I can answer
Was I brave and strong and true.
Did I fill the world with love my whole life through?
Did I fill the world with love my whole life through?
by Leslie Bricusse From the Musical Good by Mr chips
Love embodies the statement of Jesus who gave the world another universal truth when he said,
“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets” Matthew 7:12.
Are you showing love to those around you?
Are you doing to others what you would have them do to you?
Please think about it.
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