So what is love?

Question

hey everybody, thanks for you answers....it's cool. another question. So what is love and what is lust.
When you look at someone and your heart bounces and you can't speak...is that love or lust? I had such feelings about a boy when I was too young to have lust. But that boy was far from a good match for me...so is love rather a really good friend, who you find attractive, and you love being around?
when you pray to God for someone and he doesn't answer, how do you know? do I wait and wait...and place his heart in danger, because we don't know? does everything have to feel right. Nobody's perfect?!?

Answer 1

love has to be requited, has to be reciprocated and has to be given, and taken.

but you stated, "When you look at someone and your heart bounces and you can't speak", i think its infatuation.

and as for lust. well haha, lust is one of the deadly sins. lust is completely different. actually, ive never gone there yet, but i think it is a self-centered cause.

Answer 2

Love is having God in your heart & knowing that no one else will ever love you like Him.

Lust is the enemy trying to lead you astray.

Answer 3

Love is sacrifice. Lust is based in pride and arrogance.

Answer 4

love is what remains of a relationship after lust has run its course!

Answer 5

love:
Then said Almitra, speak to us of Love.
And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said:
When love beckons to you , follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked. He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assign you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become fragment of Life’s heart.

But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world there you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your treas.
Love gives naught but itself and take naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
When you love you should not say God is in my heart
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love has not other desire but to fulfil itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and belike a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
And to bleed willingly and joyfully .
To wake at dawn with a winged heard and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

Answer 6

Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more..