i'm asking each of you. i'm not asking for webster's dictionary's definition on love, but your own definition. and please, i want an actual definition. don't give me these one word responses that say something like, "god". unless you actually mean you "god" someone when you tell them you love them, "god" does not answer my question.
2007-12-06 02:55:54 · 15 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
strangely enough, i can attribute several of the deadly sins to love. lust for starters. there's usually a physical attraction to the person you love. envy is another. i think envy is a form of admiration. pride can definitely be attributed to love. in fact i would say the sincerest form of pride could be found in love.
2007-12-06 03:00:15 · update #1
bibliophile, what part of "in your own words" don't you understand?
2007-12-06 03:00:49 · update #2
GTT, pain doesn't really say much to me. elaborate more please.
2007-12-06 03:02:45 · update #3
Being truly altruistic for an individual.
2007-12-06 02:58:46 · answer #1 · answered by 雅威的烤面包机 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The greatest form of love is correction. When someone wants to guide you in the right direction, this is love. God wants to come into your heart and mold you into the person you should be. This is the highest form of love in our existence.
2007-12-06 03:05:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1 Cor 13
2007-12-06 04:38:27 · answer #3 · answered by Nina, BaC 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Their are different types of love.
Brotherly love is that between you and your dearest friends
Expressions of love may include the love for a "soul" or mind, the love of laws and organizations, love for a body, love for nature, love of food, love of money, love for learning, love of power, love of fame, love for the respect of others, etcetera.
Affection: feelings of tenderness and/or wanting physical closeness
Attachment: satisfying basic emotional needs
Altruism: selfless or unselfish concern for another
Reciprocation: if love is mutual
Commitment: a desire to maintain love
Emotional intimacy: sharing emotions and feelings
Friendship: the spirit between friends
Kinship: family bonds
Passion: whole-hearted desire
Physical intimacy: sharing of intimate personal space
Self-interest: desiring rewards
Service: desire to help
The children of God and the children of the Devil are evident by this fact: Everyone who does not carry on righteousness does not originate with God, neither does he who does not love his brother.
2007-12-06 03:11:29 · answer #4 · answered by J R 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1 Corinthians 13 (New International Version)
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1 Corinthians 13
Love
1If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor 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.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
2007-12-06 02:59:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Love is an acceptance of another, with all their faults and shortcomings, with a desire that they be happy equal in importance to your own happiness.
That's my thoughts
Dana
2007-12-06 03:01:09 · answer #6 · answered by Dana A 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Love is any action that puts the wishes, desires and needs of another person ahead of your own.
2007-12-06 02:59:59 · answer #7 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
love is unbridled care and compassion for someone or something the defies all obstacles in life, both physical and mental.
2007-12-06 02:59:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anthony C 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love is what you feel for someone that has your best interests at heart.
2007-12-06 03:03:47 · answer #9 · answered by Mystine G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I cannot come up with as good a definition as the one already written, 1st Corinthians, chapter 13.
2007-12-06 02:59:14 · answer #10 · answered by Esther 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋