Passage on Love

Many a time we stumble upon the question of what is Love. Is it a feeling? A gift? Or is it merely a fantasy? Such qustions differ from various individuals, and this arises due to the different opinions of people about love.

Here I am talking of Love in the context of interpersonal relationships in general, and I am not catering to those who have suffered heartbreaks or such stuff. I came across this definition of Love from which gave 28 definitions of Love, for which I am very sure it was because there is no proper way to define it, hence they had to cover as much as they could.

However, for those who seek to find meaning in this wonderful thing called Love, here is an extract from the Bible which I feel truly defines the little thing we call Love:-

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

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 have not love, I am nothing.

If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

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.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

But when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.

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 childish ways behind me.

Now 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.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13

This extract is a famous passage on Love which is reiterated commonly at weddings, for it gives an undisputed viewpoint on what constitutes Love. Many times when I question myself on my doings, my thoughts never fail to drift back to this passage, and it is very often I find myself doing the wrong things which hurt other people. Love is so clearly and beautifully defined here, that I hope it serves its purpose of helping those who are searching for some meaning in life to clear their doubts about Love.

There is always a reason for living, and that is to Love others,

for Love Never Fails.