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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with
science and end with a settlement.
--Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
--Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
--Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
--Russell Baker
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
--Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 77
When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom.
Hi, Mom!
--Laurie Anderson
Rather
than a celebration of love, the end of Closer
is instead filled with a sense of emptiness and aloneness that longs
for something more. It points the reality of Closer’s
tagline: If you believe in love at first sight, you never
stop looking. In other words, it makes us ask ourselves:
If love is only an accident, if desire and intimacy never reach
below the surface, if truth and honesty are only self serving, how
in the world is any relationship ever going to keep our attention,
satisfy any longing more complex than hunger or thirst, or give
us any reason to truly allow ourselves to be known, allow ourselves
to be loved, and allow ourselves to actually know and love another
person?
At
the same time that Closer portrays its
relationships as the only reality, the emotional longing that each
character exhibits throughout the movie tells us that we all need
more and that in the end, there has to be something more. Loving
us on purpose for longer than one moment, desiring to know every
piece and aspect of who we are, never playing games or keeping score,
and always offering forgiveness, God shows us the reality of a deeper,
stronger love every day. It is love that is not an accident, a stranger,
a lie, or a game. More than love at first sight, it is love that
never ends, a love that is ours already, and a love that desires
to replace too many skewed definitions of love that currently define
too many relationships and leave too many people constantly looking
for something more.
THE BIBLE ON LOVE 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 (Message Bible)
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love,
I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and
making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a
mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing.
If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to
be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So,
no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt
without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in
tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only
a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete.
But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like
any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering
through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and
the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly
as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to
do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope
unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
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