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“This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.” – 2 John 1:6 . “Obeying God’s commandments makes us resemble God, not in being eternal, but in being kind and loving as He said, “Be merciful just as your Father also is merciful.” (Luke 6:36) As we obey the commandment and abide in it, then our hearts are widened by love to God and to His brothers. Through love, our hearts are widened to obey the commandment; hence, each one drives the other to continue. “This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it,” that is love, for through love, the Law and the truth are fulfilled. This love has to be related to the truth, so we do not ask the unity among the believers, through love only, without having unity in the faith and return to the one faith of the early church, that is, return to the truth. We do not merely ask for the outward appearance but the encounter of every soul with the truth.” – St. Gregory of Cyprus