text: Love is probably the most misused idea in the history of man.  
  
  Jesus basically said that ONLY the love of God allows you and me to get the sanctifying grace to expand the boundaries of our natural self-love and self-interest so that we can learn to love our neighbor.  The term 'Neighbor' here is used in the most expansive sense of the word to include our spouses and the rest of our nuclear and extended families, our neighbors, and strangers near and far.   
  Any other type of love is a relationship of some kind of convenience or dependence.  
  
  Note, for example, the 4 sins that cry to the heavens for vengeance:  homicide, homosexuality, oppression of the weak and the poor, and the oppression of workers.  The first 2 (homicide and homosexuality) involve loving God in terms of following his commandments obediently.  The last 2 (oppression of the weak and the poor, and the oppression of workers) involve loving your neighbor, again in the most expansive sense of the word 'neighbor'.