"To love a human being means to accept him, to love him as he is. If you wait to love him till he has got rid of his faults, till he is different, you are only loving an idea. He is as he is now, and he is to be loved now, as he is; I can only love a person by allowing myself to be disturbed by him as he is. I must accept the pain of seeing him with hopefulness and expectancy that he can be different. To love him with the love of Christ means first of all to accept him as he is, and then try to lead him towards a goal he doesn't see yet--and because I love, to attack all that is contrary to God with all the energy of love. Christ's love is exactly like that; it is entirely disinterested and selfless; it accepts you as you are, with all that is displeasing, disappointing and even painful for Him in you; it gives love whatever the response may be, it forgives and forgives endlessly." J.H. Oldham that was our morning devotional during solitude time
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that was our morning devotional during solitude time
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