But Jesus says, even the sinners understand this kind of love. Jesus says even sinners know the passion and emotion of erotic love demonstrated by physical expression. And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And if I give away all that I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things, love never ends.
The aim of the Christian life, the call of discipleship, is to live in love. Every strand of his thought, every warm heart of doctrine, the passion of every sermon, the test of every claim of grace is love. We are literally asking that our experience of God's grace be in direct proportion to our willingness to live a grace-filled life. God's unlimited love is limited only by our willingness to show love. God's endless mercy is constrained only by the limits of our mercy extended toward others.