“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” -Matthew 22:37
“But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’” -Matthew 9:13
“Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? Declares the Sovereign Lord. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?” -Ezekiel 18:23
“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’” -Matthew 10:34-35