Behold, what charity the Father has given us, that we should be called the sons of God; therefore the world does not know us, because it does not know him.

I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for those that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for those that wait in thee before the sons of men!

How excellent is thy mercy, O God! therefore the sons of Adam cover themselves in the shadow of thy wings.

Nor have men heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God beside thee, that thou might do it again for the one who waits in him.

But as it is written, That which eye has not seen nor ear heard neither has entered into the heart of man is that which God has prepared for those that love him.

God is love

He that does not love does not know God, for God is charity.

And he

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and his charity is completed in us.

And he that keeps his commandments dwells in him, and he in him. And in this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.

General references

Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than a fatted calf and hatred therewith.

And my people shall dwell in a habitation of peace and in secure dwellings and in the refreshing of rest.

In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us, in that he has given us of his Spirit.