The 20 th century forgot that law, debased it, so far forgot it, and so far debased it, that hate, the opposite of love, hate more and more ruled that century, till the abominations we listed above became commonplace. We must not say the evils of the age are so great and so numerous there is nothing WE can do, surely nothing I can do to curb them. The hope our Holy Father urges upon us excludes such a defeatist attitude. This Christian hope, with its partner Christian faith, leads to Christian love, the love of God above all things and the love of our neighbor for God and in God. Any influence for the better that you and I have on this new-born 21 st century will begin with ourselves, with you and with me, or our efforts will be pointless and fruitless.
Love always considers the welfare of another, never the welfare of oneself.
I really think it did, even before the phrase was coined. The coined phrase was a response to a fact. Well, we should first recall that that love is a command. If we do not have love, if it does not dominate our whole life and all our actions, we are not on the way to God. Jesus himself told us that he IS that way, the only way that leads to God.