What is the Summum Bonum--the Supreme Good?
You have life before you. You live only once. What, then, is the noblest object of desire? What is the supreme gift to covet?
In the Book of Matthew, where the Judgment Day is depicted for us in the imagery of One seated upon a throne and dividing the sheep from the goats, the test of humanity is not, “How have I believed?” but “How have I loved?” The test of religion, the final test of religion, is not religiousness, but love.
“The words which all of us shall one Day hear sound not of theology, but of life, not of churches and saints but of the hungry and the poor, not of creeds and doctrines, but of shelter and clothing, not of Bibles and prayerbooks but of cups of cold water offered in the name of Christ.”