id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt web-archive-org-6888 Benedict XVI Deus Caritas Est - Encyclical Letter, Benedict XVI .html text/html 16212 891 70 We have come to believe in God's love: in these words the Christian can express the fundamental decision of his life. "command"; it is the response to the gift of love with which God draws near to this reason, I wish in my first Encyclical to speak of the love which God source, which is Jesus Christ, from whose pierced heart flows the love of God important element now emerges: this God loves man. above all shows us that this agape dimension of God's love for man goes starting-point of this Encyclical Letter: "God is love" (1 Jn 4:8). commandment of love of God and of neighbour, and his grounding the whole life of The love-story between God and man consists in the very fact that this communion activity of the Church is an expression of a love that seeks the integral good Church and therefore with the Bishop, so that the love of God can spread ./cache/web-archive-org-6888.html ./txt/web-archive-org-6888.txt