C. S. Lewis, my favourite definition https://t.co/4eLQGS28nM
As Augustine says, “such is the strength of love, that the mind draws in with itself those things which it has long thought of with love, and has grown into them by the close adherence.”
Kathryn Tanner • Christ the Key (Current Issues in Theology Book 7)
In its truest sense, eros signals a desire and attraction that is a good feature of our creaturehood. Instead of setting up a false dichotomy between agape and eros, we could think of agape as rightly ordered eros: the love of Christ that is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit (Rom. 5…
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James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
When love exists it does so with or without cathexis and with or without a loving feeling. It is easier—indeed, it is fun—to love with cathexis and the feeling of love. But it is possible to love without cathexis and without loving feelings, and it is in the fulfillment of this possibility that genuine and transcendent love is distinguished from si
... See moreM. Scott Peck • The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Loving someone or something essentially means or consists in, among other things, taking its interests as reasons for acting to serve those interests. Love is itself, for the lover, a source of reasons. It creates the reasons by which his acts of loving concern and devotion are inspired.
Harry G. Frankfurt • The Reasons of Love
Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. Christian Love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will. If we are trying to do His will we are obeying the commandment, “Thou shalt love the LORD thy God.” He will give us feelings of love if He pleases. We cannot cr
... See moreC. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
I knew only one thing—which I have learned well by now: Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
Viktor E Frankl • Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
C. S. Lewis saying more in one paragraph than many say in whole books https://t.co/9ra8D0AQmN