Love Your Neighbor

An expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher,which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lordyour God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Loveyour neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these twocommandments.”
- Matthew 22:35-40

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them;male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Befruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over thefish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature thatmoves on the ground.”
- Genesis 1:27-28

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.
- Genesis 1:31

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of yourfield or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and forthe foreigner residing among you. I am the Lord your God.
- Leviticus 23:22

All the believers were together and had everything in common. They soldproperty and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day theycontinued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in theirhomes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoyingthe favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those whowere being saved.
- Acts 2:44-47

I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is nowamong the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and Godhimself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from theireyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the oldorder of things has passed away.” He who was seated on the throne said, “I ammaking everything new!”
- Revelation 21:3-5

For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold thatyou were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from yourancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish ordefect.
- 1 Peter 1:18-19

Christ has no body but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which He looks,
Yours are the feet with which He walks to do good,
Yours are the hands with which He blesses all the world.
- Teresa of Avila