“The love for equals is a human thing--of friend
for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what is loving and
lovely. The world smiles. The love for the less fortunate is a beautiful
thing--the love for those who suffer, for those who are poor, the sick,
the failures, the unlovely. This is compassion, and it touches the
heart of the world. The love for the more fortunate is a rare thing--to
love those who succeed where we fail, to rejoice without envy with those
who rejoice, the love of the poor for the rich, of the black man for
the white man. The world is always bewildered by its saints. And then
there is the love for the enemy--love for the one who does not love you
but mocks, threatens, and inflicts pain. The tortured's love for the
torturer. This is God's love. It conquers the world.”
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