Bede, on 1John 4:12

“No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his charity is perfected in us.”

“If we love one another, God abides in us. But let no one think that this love, in which God abides, is preserved by a certain lax and lazy gentleness, indeed not by gentleness but by leniency and negligence. This is not charity, but languor; charity should burn fervently to amend and correct. But if morals are good, let them delight; if they are bad, let them be amended and corrected. Therefore, if we love one another with sincere and disciplined charity, God abides in us, manifested indeed by the works of that very charity, even though He does not yet appear visibly.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.