Athanasius: Love God and your neighbor

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“Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves. So may we receive those things which the eye hath not seen, nor the ear heard, and which have not entered into the heart of man, which, God hath prepared for those that love Him, through His only Son, our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.”

Athanasius (c. 293-373), Letters of Athanasius, “Festal Letter 1” in Philip Schaff, The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. IV, 510 (Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, 1997).