"Love is patient,
    love is kind.

  It is not jealous,
    (love) is not pompous,
    it is not inflated,
    it is not rude,
    it does not seek its own interests,
    it is not quick-tempered,
    it does not brood over injury,
    it does not rejoice over wrongdoing
    but rejoices with the truth.

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

  Love never fails."

(Saint Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8,
in reply to the query on what
kind of love God has shown for us
and calls us to show to others)