"God requires not the doing of the commandments for their own sake, but the correction of the soul, for whose sake He established the commandments."

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The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before we can love and serve others, we must love ourselves, even in our imperfection. If we don't embrace our own defects, we can't love others with their shortcomings.

— Jim Warner