When someone suffers because of a failure to love, it is Christ himself, God and man, who is nailed again to the cross. To hate one's brother or sister is to hate God. According to the Gospel, fratricide is synonymous with deicide. Here on earth we meet many highly cultured, wise, and venerable people and religious, but very few who have really experienced love and who know how to love. The sorrow of being unloving and unloved is spread throughout the earth.
Human friendship is like that As changeable as the cloud that dances across the sky.
The human heart is not to be trusted, It is too shallow. Nowadays, an affection like theirs Would be swept away like dust before the wind. Human friendship is often nothing more substantial than flotsam stirred by the waves, and we keep building barriers of hatred or dislike between us. If they are broken down in one place, they are raised in another, and life slips by without our ever attaining deep union of heart. In the history of the church and of religious orders, wherever people come together, we always have to struggle with the same human problem.