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Article: Love ... just like sunshine after rain.(News)
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- Post (South Africa)
- Article date:
- December 23, 2008
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INDEED, love is the singular refrain which informs Jesus' life and death. Therefore, the celebration of his birth during Christmas is obligatory on the entire world, irrespective of our religious affiliation. When a lawyer asked Jesus the secret of inheriting eternal life, He asked him to read the law, and affirmed the correctness of his answer, which was: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart ... and your neighbour as yourself." (Luke 10:27) This echoes the aphorism of Sir S Radhakrishnan, the founder of modern Hinduism, who wrote: "No one can love God well who has not loved well a creature of God."
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