"It is one of our chief privileges as Christians, that we have in Jesus Christ a revelation of perfect love. This great idea comes forth to us from His life and teachings, as a distinct and bright reality. To understand this is to understand Christianity. To call forth in us a corresponding energy of unselfish, disinterested affection, is the mission which Christianity has to accomplish on the earth. 

  There is one characteristic of the love of Christ: He loved individual man. 

Christ loved man, not masses of men; He loved each and all, and not a particular country and class. The human being was dear to Him for His own sake. Nothing outward in human condition engrossed the notice or narrowed the sympathies of Jesus. He looked to the human soul. That He loved. That divine spark He desired to cherish, no matter where it dwelt, no matter how it was dimmed. He loved man for his own sake, and all men without exclusion or exception." 

William Ellery Channing.