Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. — Mother Teresa
Try to help out an elderly person in your daily routine.
defining love
Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing. — St. Therese of Lisieux
Do a nice deed for someone in your life without being asked.
You know you’re in love when you can’t sleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. — Mark Twain
Tell someone you love how much they mean to you. Reflect on their response.
We do not judge the people we love. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Think about loving people for who they are rather than what you want them to be.
If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them. — Prof. Peter Kreeft, American theologian
Take a minute to reflect on God’s enormous love for you. Thank him for that love.
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. — Iris Murdoch
Make it a point to do one thing in your day that draws you out of yourself.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. — H. L. Mencken
Consider an area of your life in which you need to allow your logic and reason to be trumped by love.
Love is shown more in deeds than in words. — St. Ignatius of Loyola
Do something kind for someone today.
We can only learn to love by loving. — Iris Murdoch
Where in your life do you have an opportunity to stop thinking about something and to start loving instead?
What Works: Building Up Others
In preparing to give a presentation on the structures of faith communities, I was just reading 1 Corinthians 12-14. You may, like me, be familiar…
