“Dr. Rene Spitz of New York made  a study of children in foundling homes to determine what effect love and neglect had on them.  The survey proved that children who were neglected and unloved were much slower in their development, and some of them even died.  Even in the physical sense, love is the very atmosphere of life and growth.

It is even more so in the spiritual sense.

In fact, it is a matter of love or death!”

–The Bible Exposition Commentary, Warren W. Wiersbe, 2:515