Reformed Wisdom

"He that loveth not my dog loveth not me. Not that a man should love my dog first, but if a man loved me, the love wherewith he loved me, would compel him to love my dog, though my dog deserved it not, yea, though the dog had done him a displeasure, yea, if he loved me, the same love would refrain him from revenging himself, and cause him to refer the vengeance unto me... If I loved God purely, nothing that my neighbor could do were able to make me either hate him, either to take vengeance on him myself, seeing that God hath commanded me to love him, and to remit all vengeance unto him" – William Tyndale in David Teems, Tyndale:  the Man Who Gave God an English Voice, 118.