You can't know God if you don't love - 1 John 4:8

And it seems without God love can only be words, love can only be conditional.
Love is not something we imagine or simply feel. Love came from perfection into utter chaos, crossing into enemy territory. Love embraced us before we knew what it was; Long before we chose to accept it (if ever). It wraps its arms around us while we continue to curse at the world we changed. It pursues to change our hardened hearts with patience, engraving one letter at a time. Not L-O-V-E but C-H-R-I-S-T. Love and God apart are nothing. But we are mocking him while loving ourselves continues to be everything. The Way (God-he has not only made us but made for us a way to live) the Truth (Christ-God sent his son to be living truth, an example) and the Life (Holy Spirit- God gave us his spirit to be a guide to hold on to the truth already given)