“God is love, and he who abides in love
abides in God, and God abides in him” (1
Jn 4:16). These words from the First Letter
of John express with remarkable clarity
the heart of the Christian faith: the Christian
image of God and the resulting image of
mankind and its destiny. In the same verse,
Saint John also offers a kind of summary of
the Christian life: “We have come to know
and to believe in the love God has for us.”