No matter which gospel text we take to consider the life of Jesus, we are confronted with one who consistently manifests the love to which he calls others. He breaks down all partitions that divide humans from each other; he embodies a love that is just, and a love that therefore variously exhibits judgement, affirmation, service, sharing, depending upon the context of love. But this is the life that reveals the nature of God for us; this is the life that offers a concrete vision of the reality to which God calls us. This is the revelation of God to us for the sake of conforming us to the divine image. If we see in Jesus a revelation of God for us, then the way Jesus loves is the way God loves.
Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, God, Christ, Church, pp. 97-98.