Sunday, June 30, 2013

Do All You Can to Love Everyone


Do All You Can to Love Everyone

Do all you can to love everyone. If you are not yet able to, at the very least do not hate anyone. Yet you would not even manage this if you have not reached detachment from the things of this world. 

You must love everyone with all your soul, hoping, that according to the commandment to love your neighbour, Jesus has established so close a bond that he takes as done to himself anything done to our brothers or sisters. He says "I was thirsty and you gave me drink," (Mt. 25, 35) and he adds "As you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me." (Mt 25, 40)

St. Basil the Great
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