I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
--Tom Lehrer
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
--Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
--Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
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
Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.
--Louise Beal
Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
--National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"
The Problem with Love
What we often label as “love” is actually a variation of it that has been tainted by our own selfish desires. It starts out innocent and ends in destruction. Without a doubt, all of us can relate to one or more personal experiences in this list, and we are greatly impacted by the association of these pains with the term “love.” We become jaded and give up entirely on the hope of finding true love.
--Melinda Ledman
ON REAL LOVE Agape -the highest form of love is . . . profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.
--MADELEINE L’ENGLE
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 (Message Bible) Agape Love
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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