双语:To love and to be loved 爱与被爱

It is not enough for us to say "I love God." but I also have to love my neighbor.

St.John says you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love you neighbor.
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% [: C1 G5 Z+ g" h: YHow can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love you neighbor whom you can see, whom you touch, with whom you live?
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& x- ]8 _/ n6 B! ^0 ^And so it is very important for us to realize that love, to be true, has to hurt. I must be willing to give whatever it takes not to harm other people and, in fact, to do good to them.
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This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts.
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Otherwise there is not true love in me and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.

我们只说：“我爱上帝”是不够的。我还应该爱我的邻居。

2 |( Y% v% {2 _5 C圣约翰说如果你声称你爱上帝而不爱你的邻里乡亲，那你就是骗子。如果你不爱一个你能见到，你能接触并能生活在一起的邻居，那么你怎能爱一个你看不见的上帝？
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' R' X5 G% y6 n: G# r& ^所以我们应意识到爱也会带来痛苦，这一点很重要。我愿意付出我的爱，只要这爱不伤害他人，事实上反而对他人有好处。
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, m$ F% S. l0 O+ Y% n这就要求我愿意付出，直至它带来痛苦。

否则我就没有真爱，而且我给周围的人带来的不是和平而是不公正。

It is not enough for us to say "I love God." but I also have to love my neighbor.