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We Will Love Our Neighbors as Ourselves, February 15
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Matthew 22:39
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The divine law requires us to love God supremely, and our neighbor
as ourselves. Without the exercise of this love, the highest profession of
faith is mere hypocrisy
The worshiper of God will find that he cannot cherish one fiber of
the root of selfishness. He cannot do his duty to his God and practice
oppression toward his fellow men. The second principle of the law is like
unto the first, “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” “This do and
thou shalt live.” These are the words of Jesus Christ from which there can
be no departure on the part of any man, woman, or youth who would be a
true Christian. It is obedience to the principles of the commandments of
God, that molds the character after the divine similitude....
To leave a suffering neighbor unrelieved is a breach of the law of
God.... He who loves God will not only love his fellow men, but will
regard with tender compassion the creatures which God has made. When
the Spirit of God is in man it leads him to relieve rather than to create
suffering.... We are to care for every case of suffering, and to look upon
ourselves as God’s agents to relieve the needy to the very uttermost of
our ability. We are to be laborers together with God. There are some who
manifest great affection for their relatives, for their friends and favorites,
who yet fail to be kind and considerate to those who need tender sympathy,
who need kindness and love. With earnest heart, let us inquire, Who is my
neighbor? Our neighbors are not merely our neighbors and special friends,
are not simply those who belong to our church or who think as we do. Our
neighbors are the whole human family. We are to do good to all men, and
especially to those who are of the household of faith. We are to give to the
world an exhibition of what it means to carry out the law of God. We are
to love God supremely and our neighbors as ourselves
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The Signs of the Times, January 10, 1911
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Undated Ellen G. White
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