2007-02-26 02:24:07 · 19 answers · asked by Neelakandan V 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."
I Corinthians 13:4-8a (NIV)
This verse describes the characteristics of true love. These qualities can certainly be found in the person of Jesus Christ, and they can be found in all truly loving relationships. The problem with trying to "find" love in our dating lives, is that too often we don't look for these characteristics. Rather we look at physical appearance, popularity, or wealth. These are not the qualities that God looks at and neither should we.
May God bless you
2007-02-26 02:29:18 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Ah, what is true love? Most people believe that love is about how one feels about someone else. And that is partly so. But true love is not about how one feels about another, it is how that person makes you feel about yourself. That you are needed, wanted and desired. That you have a place in life. That you belong. That you are a good father/mother. When people truly love you, you do not have to be told that, you already know. And that you are totally accepted no matter what. True love has total forgiveness, always and, that you know, if you are truly loved.
2007-02-26 10:49:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A wise man once said that Love can be defined as "the want for the good in another."
I would then state that true love is to want for the good of another, even as the expense of the self.
Will you take the hit, in order to make the other person happy? Even if it means losing that person? That, my friend, is true love.
2007-02-26 10:28:16 · answer #3 · answered by Jay 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. “God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1 Jn 4:16). These words from the First Letter of John express with remarkable clarity the heart of the Christian faith: the Christian image of God and the resulting image of mankind and its destiny. In the same verse, Saint John also offers a kind of summary of the Christian life: “We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us”. (*)
2. Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other peoples sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. <1 Cor 13>
3. The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done." Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must. The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. (Blessed Mother Teresa)
2007-02-26 10:37:37 · answer #4 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Love is caring for someone.Caring without willing to get something in return is true Love.
2007-02-26 11:35:02 · answer #5 · answered by ud 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Without any care or concern for materialistic things in between, if two people can be just happy with each other, there is true love between them.
2007-02-26 13:10:55 · answer #6 · answered by Maliha S 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
True love means the possessiveness towards a person.it may be between any relationship. be it with a friend,parents,to a person closer to you or anyone.Here i didn't mention lovers because lovers is the word used for two persons who aremuch closer to each other. It is not necessary that they need to be husband and wife .as i said before they may be friends also.
2007-02-26 12:57:54 · answer #7 · answered by Jaya 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Susan is right by quoting Corinthians.
True love is sacrificial. It is NOT a feeling. Feelings come and go.
Love is also a decision. You decide to love another and by this you'll not leave that person, you be there when they are sick, when they are poor, when they are ugly.
Love is sacrificial IE Jesus.
We wouldn't have divorce as much if people practiced this.
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2007-02-26 10:32:59 · answer #8 · answered by Jeanmarie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1 Corinthians
13:4 Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;
13:5 Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;
13:6 It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true;
13:7 Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.
2007-02-26 10:37:59 · answer #9 · answered by Java Chip 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The only one real true love that there is in existence is God's love. Man's love for God and man's love for one another will ultimately always fail. That is why the book of first John says: " herein is love, not that we love God, but that he loves us, and sent his son..."
2007-02-26 10:29:52 · answer #10 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋