What Is Love?

This is a billion dollar question that humanity seeks to answer everyday. The passage below speaks to the meaning of love. It is profound, simplistic yet so powerful. All i know is that love Is Indispensable. Enjoy.

• If I possess all worldly degrees, qualifications, can speak intelligently, and charm like an angel, but do not have love, I am only a loud empty sounding drum or a clanging cymbal.

• If I have the gift to see into the future 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.

• 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.

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

• It does NOT dishonour others, 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 worldly wisdom, they will cease; where there are eloquence and pride, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

• For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

• but when completeness comes, what is in part 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 the ways of childhood behind me.

• 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. (incredibly mysterious this.)

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

  Love.

  Do these things and live.