This attribute gave great effectiveness to the mighty signs He worked and the powerful sermons He preached. Our Lord showed compassion for the sick, the hungry, and the sorrowing, seeing them as sheep having no shepherd.
Love is absolutely indispensable if the believer is to be effective in divine ministry.
One of the basic factors in the increasing divorce rate among Christian couples is the absence of simple compassion between husband and wife. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love. It profits me nothing.