It is not enough for us to say: "I love God, but I do not love my neighbour." Saint John says that you are a liar if you love God and you don’t love your neighbour. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbour whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live? And so this is very important for us to realize, that love, to be true, has to hurt.
Mother Teresa, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 1979
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