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She had learned to know how comforting a smile, even from a stranger, may be.

If our life be one of toil and of suffering, if the world outside be cold and dreary, what a pleasure to return to the sunshine of happy faces and the warmth of hearts we love.

We’ve got each other, Anne. I don’t know what I’d do if you weren’t here--if you’d never come.

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

We love him, because he first loved us.

Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world that we might live through him.

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth! Break out into singing, mountains! For Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me.

For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.

All your children will be taught by Yahweh, and your children’s peace will be great.

As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”