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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Big Love
Augustine of Hippo implores us to
“Love all men, even your enemies.”
That’s a lot of love! And loving your enemies? That will take a heart larger than we might now be able to imagine.
But Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel said,
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.”
Is this what we are becoming – a world of indifference, inaction, apathy? Love would seem to be the greater pursuit.
