The most revolutionary part of Jesus' teaching was that a good inner disposition — a good heart — is more important than following codes for correct external behavior. It's as simple as that, yet the literal-minded and the orthodox sticklers for form keep missing it. Where is this God's kingdom of yours, they keep asking him. What is it like? When it is coming? How should we behave to get in? Give us some rules.
And he keeps telling them, it's here, it's all around you but you haven't recognized it, it's inside you, it's spread all over this earth, and the only rules you need worry about are loving God with your whole heart and loving one another as I have loved you.
— Gail Godwin, Heart