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Monday, March 24, 2014

Love Conquers All Things



#1:AMOR VINCIT OMNIA



Over the centuries, certain Latin phrases have been used widely enough in English to get included in the dictionary. This list contains some of our favorites.

What It Means:

"love conquers all things"

Where It Comes From:

Shortly before the start of the first millennium, the Roman poet Virgil wrote "love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love."
The phrase and the concept (in Latin and in English) caught on: a character in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written in the late 1300s, wore a brooch engraved "Amor Vincit Omnia"; Caravaggio used the phrase as the title of his painting of Cupid in the early seventeenth century; the twentieth century poet Edgar Bowers reinterpreted the phrase all over again in the poem with that title.
Top Ten Lists - Merriam-Webster Online
Read more at http://www.merriam-webster.com/top-ten-lists/top-10-latin-words-to-live-by/amor-vincit-omnia.html#DF4zuUhcJQejLF7s.99

Saturday, March 22, 2014

What do others see?

Love is seen in what it does.
Gladys Aylward

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Love is Not Just an Idea

"Love is not an idea for Paul (Apostle), not even a "motivating factor" for behavior.  It is behavior.  To love is to act; anything short of action is not love at all."

p. 628

"It is as though Paul were saying, "You must have love; without it you are simply not behaving as Christians.  And what is love?  It is to behave in ways opposite to yourselves!" (commenting on I Corinthians 13:4b-5)

p. 637

Gordon D. Fee
The New International Commentary on the New Testament - The First Epistle to the Corinthians


Saturday, March 8, 2014

Pouring Out = Experiencing Yourself

"I've discovered the more love and joy I pour into others, the more I experience in my own life."
~Lysa Terkeurst, UNGLUED, page 148