At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her. “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.” But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go, I will go, and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.
Ruth 1:14-16
Love is a mysterious force imparted by God the Father and gloriously shared by His creatures to degrees beyond human comprehension and reason. No wonder the Lord said of the first Christians, “By this shall all men and women know that ye are disciples, if ye have love one to another.”