“God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1 Jn 4:16). These words from the First Letter of John express with remarkable clarity the heart of the Christian faith: the Christian image of God and the resulting image of mankind and its destiny. In the same verse, Saint John also offers a kind of summary of the Christian life: “We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us.”
–Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est–this was really striking to me on second reading, b/c of the way it links “God is love” with “man is made in the image of God.” So we are made in the image of Love….