why should we love everyone?
Love is a quality of the human soul and it manifests itself like this, somehow by itself… most people neither love nor hate each other.
Love is a quality of the human soul and it manifests itself like this, somehow by itself. Most people neither love nor hate each other. Relationships between people in general are, let’s say, official relationships, that is, relationships based on different principles, or without any principles, casual relationships; in this case, God is absent from our love.
When hatred grows in our soul, as a result of our passions, we must think that we are not allowed to hate, but are called to love. Someone dislikes us, that is, we don’t fit, we would like this or that person not to be around us. However, God’s commandment is to love all people. Why should we love everyone? Because that is what God commands us to do. What is the reason for the love of all people, we can think for ourselves, because, after all, Christ, the Son of God, coming from heaven to earth, brought a teaching that the world does not give and the earth does not want. Know that the earth does not want the love of enemies. I think that some of you have read the words of Venerable Siluan from the Holy Mountain, in which there is a lot of insistence on the love of enemies, the love of the…
