Love

Eugene Peterson writes... "No matter how right we are in what we believe about God, no matter how accurately we phrase our belief of how magnificently and persuasively we preach or write or declare it, if love does not shape the way we speak and act, we falsify the creed, we confess a lie.  Believing without loving is what gives religion a bad name.  Believing without lovine destroys lives, believing without loving turns the best of creeds into a weapon of oppression."