We all need to be loved and we need to know we're loved! Remember the scene in Les Mis when the gendarmes bring Jean Valjean back to the bishop's house after they find him with the silver he's stolen? Instead of condemning him, the holy bishop dismisses the gendarmes telling Valjean in their presence that he forgot to take the candlesticks which he puts into his knapsack. When the gendarmes leave, the bishop tells the wounded and bitter man, "I've bought your soul for God." That single event transforms Valjean from an angry soul alienated from both God and his fellow man, to an icon of love and charity.
