“This people honours me with their lips, but their hearts are from me.” (Mark 7:6) This statement comes from Isaiah 29:13, meaning that God cares about people’s hearts, not appearance. The Gospel of Luke’s account of how Jesus allowed a sinful woman to wash his feet is the best evidence of this: “One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. She stood behind him at his feet. Weeping, and began to bathe feet with her tears and to dry them with her hair. Then she continued kissing his feet and anointing them with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him—that she is a sinner.” (Luke 7:36-39) Jesus then told the Pharisee, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, bt she has bathed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not stopped kissing my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. Therefore, I tell you, her sins, which were many, have been forgiven; hence she has shown great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.” (Luke 7:44-47) St. Paul got right to the point: “If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbol. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have move, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.” (1 Cor 13:1-3) Love is living out God’s will with words and actions.