2. Love : The Basis of Eternal Life

World Scripture

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death. Any one who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we know love, that he [Jesus] laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John 3.14-16

Teachings of Sun Myung Moon

Eternity does not exist apart from true love.
(August 18, 1988)

When you are united with your beloved, you do not care if the world is perishing. Even if your parents demanded that you separate, threatening you with a knife, you would not be afraid of that knife.
You would be determined to stay together, even if you died and went to the next world. You are not concerned about your earthly life, because you believe that you will be together in the spirit world. You actually prefer life in eternity to finite earthly life.
(380:88, June 5, 2002)

May we discover by ourselves and prove by ourselves, not only by faith or conviction but also from experience, that Thou and I have a relationship extending front and back, right and left. Thou and I were living, are living and shall ever live in a relationship eternal and unchanging.
(40:350, February 11, 1971)