Aaron Pfoltzer

“When you love someone, you are giving them permission to hurt you. When God tried to show us love, what did we do? We killed Him. When we love like Him, others will kill us too.”
― Larry Richards, Be a Man!: Becoming the Man God Created You to Be

“In Matthew 25, Jesus makes it clear that whatever we do or fail to do to others, we do or fail to do to Him (see Mt 25:40). We cannot separate our love of God from love of neighbor. First John 4:20 says, “If any one says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar.” It was Dorothy Day who made this passage come alive for me when she said, “We love God as much as the person we like the least.” Think about the person you like the least. Get a good image of that person. It could be someone that you work with; it could be someone who hurt you, or a person that you cannot even stay in the same room with. As you are thinking of this person, you are probably thinking about how much you can’t stand to be around him. Maybe your blood pressure just rose a bit. Well, that is how much you love God!”
― Larry Richards, Be a Man!: Becoming the Man God Created You to Be