Love is firm. Love is most needed by the human organism from the moment of birth. Love is reciprocal in its effect and is as beneficial to the giver as it is to the recipient. Love is creative. Love is tender.
Love is joyful.
Love is fearless. Love enables the person to treat life as an art. Love as an attitude of mind and as a form of behavior is adaptively the best and most efficient of all adjustive processes in enabling the human being to adapt himself to his environment. Life is God's gift to us. In 1829, Pope Leo XII declared that whoever allowed himself to be vaccinated ceased to be a child of God, that smallpox was a judgment of God and the vaccination a challenge toward Heaven.