The Psalmist said (Ps. 119:165), "Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them." Certainly one should disdain the petty, the trifling, the mean, and should strive to express the nobility of love under every trying circumstance, for only love, voiced through selfless benevolence, will enlighten and enrich human nature and wash away the false reactions of personal sense.
In comparison with the sublimity of true magnanimity, how unsatisfying, how unworthy, is the indulgence of personal animosity! But how rewarding is the sweet reasonableness of the love which reflects God, divine Love! This love meets the demands made upon it with forgiveness and compassion and bestows upon friend and foe alike the crown of man's acknowledged perfection as the beloved child of God.
Every motive, every thought and act of Christ Jesus, was quickened by unselfed love. Only that which was offensive to spiritual sense, such as hypocrisy, egotism, or worldliness, ever affronted him, and his rebuke of these was from the high standpoint of the impersonal Christ-thought, never from the standpoint of personal indignation or displeasure.
