Love

In Matt. 22 Jesus sums up all of the law and the prophets by saying love God with all of your heart, soul, and mind, and also love your neighbor as yourself. I have been thinking about love this week, and remembered 1 Cor. 13. . . . "it I can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing."

It makes me think if I think I have truth, but it is out of the context of love, I don't really have truth (because God is love). If I think I have holiness, but it isn't rooted in love, it isn't really holiness.

Love is the context in which holiness and truth can be formed. We must start with love. So let's not fear showing love to others. Let's start with love, then wait and see what happens next.

Kierkegaard says something similiar but you will probably have to read it more than once.
"The truth consists not in knowing the truth intellectually but in being the truth . . . Knowing the truth is something which follows as a matter of course from being the truth, and not conversely. And it is precisely for this reason it becomes untruth when knowing the truth is separated from being the truth, or when knowing the truth is treated as one and the same thing as being the truth, since the true relation is the converse of this: to be the truth is one and the same thing as knowing the truth."