1 John 4:8
God is LOVE
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Matthew 22:36-40
Two Greatest Commandments
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Love is Many Things
1 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If 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 do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love 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.9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When 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 the ways of childhood behind me. 12 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.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
The experience of love is a very special experience for everyone...And love is something you cannot see...It is something that you feel, and it is heartfelt...
Try to explain love or write down what you mean and feel by the one or one's you love...It is difficult to explain love...Why do you specifically love your spouse and your family and children?...Can you explain the feelings you have for them in words?...And even though you might find difficulty in explaining love, you know love is there and that love exists...You know that love is there in around your family and your friends...Somewhere in your thoughts, in your emotions, and in your heart you know that love is there...And you know that this love is real...Love somehow, as St. Paul writes, is kind, and patient and does protect and does persevere...Love does trust and makes us feel good about ourselves, as well as those we love...Love helps us feel that we are not alone and that we are significant in this world, in the sense that we are a part of this something called love with someone, because we are touched by another...This love for another and being loved gives one a deep connection to those we are in love with...Love gives us compassion...
Love is a feeling...Love is sharing yourself with another...
God has given us love, to have feelings and to feel these feelings...For those in love and who are loved feel that particular human experience as being quite real and quite wonderful...This human experience of love is a special experience and when explained by science and in a scientific methodology, love is talked about in brain chemistry and brain circuitry...The scientific explanation seems almost cold and non-romantic...But love, for me, seems to be better explained by Spirituality and the heart and soul, and not scientifically...
God is LOVE...