I'm hoping to pick on you some here. :-)
"the greatest virtue is love" (I Corinthians 13:13)
Love is the "fulfilling of the law" of God. (Romans 13:10)
"Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God.
He who does not love does not know God; for God is love...."
"No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and His love is perfected in us".
"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love."
(I John 4:7-19)
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 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 have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing."
"Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
The EO church follows Holy Scripture because in our pursuit of love, we believe and hope all things, even that those who have not yet heard of Christ can be saved. Not those who have rejected Christ, perhaps, or those who are evil, but those who were not given a chance or were led astray without the Grace to overcome their straying.
"Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."