If we cannot love ourselves as a masterpiece of God’s Power and at the same time hate the sins we commit, we shall be unable to relate to our neighbor in love. When we find sin we shall hate the sinner and fail to make the distinction between our neighbor and his weaknesses. It will be difficult to love that neighbor in the way God loves Him because that neighbor must be near perfect before he is the recipient of our love. The Commandment will be merely an ideal that is not realistic in modern-day living.
