"True love embraces all that is human, -- all creatures who have the power of being happy or miserable, and it has a yearning sympathy and desire for their good. The love of the New Testament is the going out of thought, of feeling, and of sympathy towards others, and towards whatever can receive benefit from us. It is the State of the Creator, and I suppose that it is the state of those most like him, who dwell close to Him. It is the wish that whatever we are thinking of, or saying, or doing, may make some one better or happier; that is, by enriching and developing their higher nature." H.W. Beecher.
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