Most of us profess to love God. The challenge, I have observed, is loving our neighbor. The term neighbor includes family, people with whom we work, those whom we see in geographical proximity to our home and at church, and even the enemy, though we do not condone what the latter does. If we do not love all of these, our brothers and sisters, can we truly say that we love God? The Apostle John declared "that he who loveth God love his brother also," and added, "If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar" (1 Jn. 4:21, 20). Love of God and neighbor must therefore be inseparably connected.
Robert F. Orton, "'The First and Great Commandment'," Ensign, Nov 2001, 81
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