“Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.”

1 John 3:18

“I ask . . . that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us . . . so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one.”

John 17:20-23

(Jesus) said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

John 14:25-27

25 “I have said these things to you while I am still with you. 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all that I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.

The Lord is near to the broken-hearted, and saves the crushed in spirit.
Psalm 34:18 (NRSV)

14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. . .27 My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me.
John 10:14-15, 27 (NRSV)