God is the perfect person and therefore He is perfect love. God is the perfect person and therefore He is the perfect truth. God is the perfect person and therefore He is the perfect life. That is why Christ said those powerful words,
"I am the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6) implying love as the path. That is why love, as the path, is in the first place because it is only through love that one can achieve the truth and the life. This is why it says again in the Holy Scripture,
"If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema" (1 Cor 16:22). How will he not be anathema [cursed] who has no love and consequently no truth or life? He is cursing himself.
+St. Nikolai Velimirovich, from
Missionary Letters of Saint Nikolai Velimirovich, part 2, A hundred sayings about Christian teaching on love, #49
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