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mdgspencer
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I was stuck when my wife asked this. So I am putting this on here.
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Justin_Mary
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I believe it was St Fulton Sheen who said to love is to will the good of the other person.
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Inbonum
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Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.What is loving God?
John 14:21
Jesus answered and said to him, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.
Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; yet the word you hear is not mine but that of the Father who sent me.
John 14:23-24
By Peter KreeftWhat is love?
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fhansen
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It’s to come to know Him, of His sheer goodness and of His own love. To know God is to love Him, because He’s the absolute fulfillment of all human desire. We learn about Him though Church teachings but Jesus’ purpose in His coming is direct and personal revelation, to each of us, to the extent possible. This knowledge and therefore this love will not reach its full potential here on earth but it begins here, and God can reveal Himself more or less profoundly here. Faith, itself, is said to be a gift that involves a foretaste of the “vision” of God. Anyway:
"For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known." Cor 13:12
But now, to the extent that we continue to seek His “face” and His will and walk in humble obedience of God, doing His will as we best we can, we grow nearer to Him, and learn of and know Him better. And:
"Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." 14:3
Again, as that knowledge increases, so does our love which is the “ticket” to eternal life because love defines justice or righteousness and perfection for man which is why the Greatest Commandments are what they are. And why the Church actually teaches, regarding our “particular judgment”:
"At the evening of life we shall be judged on our love."
Meanwhile this life will always remain a struggle, with dry periods, testing, temptations, strife, and suffering.
"For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known." Cor 13:12
But now, to the extent that we continue to seek His “face” and His will and walk in humble obedience of God, doing His will as we best we can, we grow nearer to Him, and learn of and know Him better. And:
"Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." 14:3
Again, as that knowledge increases, so does our love which is the “ticket” to eternal life because love defines justice or righteousness and perfection for man which is why the Greatest Commandments are what they are. And why the Church actually teaches, regarding our “particular judgment”:
"At the evening of life we shall be judged on our love."
Meanwhile this life will always remain a struggle, with dry periods, testing, temptations, strife, and suffering.
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jochoa
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Love is patient; is kind.
Loving God is patience and kindness with all thoughts, feelings and will for the Greatest Being toward others and the self.
Since patience builds greater peace and kindness gets greater joy, becoming the greatest at patience and kindness will get you and those you serve the greatest peace and joy possible!
Loving God is patience and kindness with all thoughts, feelings and will for the Greatest Being toward others and the self.
Since patience builds greater peace and kindness gets greater joy, becoming the greatest at patience and kindness will get you and those you serve the greatest peace and joy possible!
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Amac1
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… baby don’t hurt me!
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jasonconners7
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Love is defined in 1 Corinthians 13.
1 Corinthians 13
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The Gift of Love
13 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; 10 but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13
New Revised Standard Version
The Gift of Love
13 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; 10 but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
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fhansen
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Thank you. I really believe that verses 4-8 truly help define, to some little but nonetheless accurate degree, the nature of God.
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0Scarlett_nidiyilii
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Essentially, loving God means to choose Him over everything else.
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lwest
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God is love. Loving God is doing His Will, following His Commandments, putting Him first in our lives, trying our best to be who He created us to be and admitting when we fail, trusting in His Church and utilizing the Sacraments, trying our best to not hold grudges, to treat others fairly and trying our best to be humble, modest, kind, standing up for Truth…be those warriors of Christ in our little corner of the world. People have perverted the word ‘love’. To so many, ‘love’ means selfish desire, lust, condoning others in their sin. But that’s not love. We’re to try to help each other get to heaven. And…I’m babbling…sorry…
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jasonconners7
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To love God is to obey him.
John 14:21
New Revised Standard Version
21 They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”
John 14:21
New Revised Standard Version
21 They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”
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EugeneCharles
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To find the real meaning of love, the 1st Corinthians will explain better:
Loving God, it’s like loving the world and everything in it because you’re loving the Creator of everything. Loving God could be hard to explain but you can feel something like, you’re loving your parents. But When we love the Lord, we do all His commandments. The greatest of it is to love God and our neighbors (brothers and sisters). It’s not always about loving God alone but we do good deeds. to mankind as well. Not as easy as to fight back on them but that’s the reality, we love God by loving everyone too.
Loving God, it’s like loving the world and everything in it because you’re loving the Creator of everything. Loving God could be hard to explain but you can feel something like, you’re loving your parents. But When we love the Lord, we do all His commandments. The greatest of it is to love God and our neighbors (brothers and sisters). It’s not always about loving God alone but we do good deeds. to mankind as well. Not as easy as to fight back on them but that’s the reality, we love God by loving everyone too.
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