I learned that saying you love your friends isn't enough: that love is a verb - it requires Acts of Love. It is all about the doing, not the saying, and now I make a point, every day, of emailing or phoning or making a plan with those I love.
But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.
Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?
Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.
To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is an unchristian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erotic and everything of that nature. But to the Christian love is the works of love. Christ's love was not an inner feeling, a full heart and what not, it was the work of love which was his life.
To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.
If only love can drive out hate, we have to remember that love is a verb. It requires action.
Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.
I think sometimes we box in love as a feeling. I like to think of love as an action. It's something that we do.
