He longed to cleanse them and make them holy, but he started this process at the point at which he found each individual. He spoke their language and started with what they could understand. He worked to meet their unique needs. Love does not demand that everyone be like us. It doesn't demand that people have the same experience, the same tastes, the same background.
True love embraces people as they are.
It means overlooking small irritations. Everyone of us has blemishes. There is not a day that goes by that we don't do something stupid, inappropriate, or foolish. There is not a day when we don't say something we shouldn't have or react when we should have shrugged something off. If we are going to fight about every little irritation in life then we are going to be fighting all the time.