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In my opinion:

Without question, it is love a mother has for her children

[Aloysius]

No greater love has man than this, to lay down is life for is friends.

the love that leads to the sacrifice of one's own life for another is the greatest love on earth.

[Groo the Wanderer]

the sacrifice of the cross

[i<3LSOP]

The sacrifice on the cross, on the alter... and the love of God for His Son, Jesus.

[Aloysius]

i assumed that by "on earth" add was trying to indicate "other than divine love", so even though the crucifixion was indeed "on earth", I didn't specifically say that but stuck to general self-sacrificial love, when someone actually lays down their life for someone else, that is real love. that kind of absolute altruism is, in fact, the only kind of proof offerable for the existence of love at all, or for the existence of anything spiritual or supernatural, because that type of altruism is an evolutionary disadvantage.

in animals you can see some kind of altruism, but it usually corresponds to the continuation of similar genes and is thus an evolutionary advantage--a meerkat will give his life for another meerkat if that meerkat is of the same geneological family, so it's instinctive; but when humans lay down their lives not for their children or their brothers, but for friends or strangers or neighbors, that's the nearest thing we have to "proof" of something divine at work in the human soul.

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i assumed that by "on earth" add was trying to indicate "other than divine love"

That was the general idea
That being said:
Mary was the mother of the Messiah, Jesus, She, as all mothers are willing servant to there children.   Mary was the only human being to be with Jesus throughout his entire life — from his birth until his death, from cradle to grave and everything in between.
The mother of my children was like that, as is hers , as is mine

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John 15: 13 Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

[jaime]

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smiles, i smiles
especially baby smiles

my baby smiles

[Nola Seminarian]

Self-Sacrificial Love

[jaime]

smiles, i smiles
especially baby smiles

my baby smiles

Mine's name is Kevin Love He plays for the Timberwolves. I think all the people who have the last name of Love, he is the greatest!

[Annie12]

I believe it is selflessness.