Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.
Augustine of Hippo
“On the Mystical Body of Christ,” as quoted in Mersch, Kelly, and Dobson, The Whole Christ: The Historical Develop–ment of the Doctrine of the Mystical Body in Scripture and Tradition, 1938
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Heart of the Earth
Augustine of Hippo urges us to
“Love all men, even your enemies.”
That’s a tall order. There are 7.5 billion of us on our planet (and who knows how many more “out there.”) Possible? It’s certainly worth striving for.
Martin Luther King said,
“Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
Love may just be the easier way out. And it might even change the shape of the universe.
Great Ideas at ChiDM, 2018. Photo: The Office of Experience.
