He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.

We cannot know the whole truth which belongs to God alone but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors truth will retaliate with ugliness poverty and disease.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone in a single cottage on the top of a mountain a mile from any habitation? He replied that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.