This Valentine's Day, I thought I would share some quotes on love from one of my favorite writers, C. S. Lewis. "Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's
ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
C.S. Lewis in "God in the Dock"
"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket -- safe, dark, motionless, airless -- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable."
C.S. Lewis in "The Four Loves"
"There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. The second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give."
"The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis," Volume III
It's apparent that C.S. Lewis understood well the agape love of the Bible.
ReplyDeleteBTW, that pair of fish-hooks in the picture look more dangerous than Cupid's arrows.