There is more in love than simple kindness and forgiveness: It goes beyond these. Love always brings in God, being the activity of His nature. His nature morally is light, but the energy of it is love that goes out in goodness to others.
Thus, love tends to bind together, whereas self or flesh is the very opposite, the one as decidedly removing difficulties as the other brings them in. Love not only bears and forbears, but it also overcomes evil with good. [14]