Shakespeare on Love

Time for some Shakespeare Quotes:

"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."

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"Love is holy."

 

Love's Constancy

 A 13th Century mystic, Hadweijch of Antwerp, wrote a beautiful poem:

Love's Constancy

Anyone who has waded

Through Love's turbulent waters,

Now feeling hunger and now satiety,

Is untouched by the season

Of withering or blooming

For in the deepest and most dangerous waters,

On the highest peaks,

Love is always the same.

(quoted on page 63 + 64 in Quiet Prayer by Marie Chapian)

No Loss in Love

 There is no loss in love...

love is the reward, the gain, if only in your heart.

What do you think your life depends on?

 Eugene Peterson in his magnificent translation THE MESSAGE, says First Peter chapter one:  

"Love one another as if your lives depended on it."

Then in chapter four he translates:

"Most of all, love each other as if your life depended on it."

I like his translation.  I think it does.  Do you?  At least the quality of your life and the quality of your relationships do.  

Want to really live? REALLY LOVE

 "The way to really live is to really love."

page 177

THE JESUS LIFE

Stephen W. Smith