Transcript WELCOME TO THE MEETING HOUSE!

“The deepest urge in every
human heart is to be in
relationship with someone
who absolutely delights in
us.”
“Love makes us who we are,
and who we can become.”
~ Thomas Lewis, M.D.,
Researcher & Author
“In love the soul acts in
accordance with its nature,
because it is created to live in
connection with other souls.”
~ Johannes Pedersen,
Theologian
“Much or even most of what
has been popularly written
about love is nonsense.”
~ Douglas N. Morgan,
Philosopher
“Love is such a tissue of
paradoxes, and exists in such an
endless variety of forms and
shades, that you may say almost
anything about it that you
please and it is likely to be
correct.”
“Young people are cynical about
love. Ultimately, cynicism is the
great mask of the disappointed
and betrayed heart.”
~ Bell Hooks, Poet & Author
“Love is too large, too deep ever
to be truly understood or
measured or limited within the
framework of words.”
~ M. Scott Peck, Psychiatrist
“Love doesn’t really make the
world go round. It just makes
people dizzy so it looks like
it.”
~ Martha Lupton
“Everyone admits that love is
wonderful and necessary, yet no
one can agree on what it is.”
~ Diane Ackerman, Historian
“Love, in the Christian sense,
does not mean an emotion. It is
a state not of the feelings but of
the will; that state of the will
which we have naturally about
ourselves, and must learn to
have about other people.”
~ C. S. Lewis, Philosopher
“Love is as love does.”
~ Eric Fromm, Psychiatrist
“The myth of romantic love is a dreadful
lie. As a psychiatrist I weep in my heart
almost daily for the ghastly confusion
and suffering that this myth fosters.
Millions of people waste vast amounts
of energy desperately and futilely
attempting to make the reality of their
lives conform to the unreality of the
myth.”
“Since love is not a thing, it is not
lost when given. You can offer your
love completely to hundreds of
people and still retain the same love
you had originally. It is like
knowledge. The wise man can teach
all he knows and when he’s through
he’ll still know all that he has
taught.”
“The simple but observable
fact is that the more you love,
the more you are able to
love.”
~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
“For one human being to love
another human being: that is
perhaps the most difficult task
that has been entrusted to us,
the ultimate task, the final test
and proof, the work for which all
other work is merely
preparation.”
“Widespread cultural
acceptance of lying is a primary
reason many of us will never
know love. …
To know love we have to tell the
truth to ourselves and others.”
“Love is an act of faith, and
whoever is of little faith is
also of little love.”
~ Eric Fromm, Psychologist
Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If one offered for love
all the wealth of his house,
it would be utterly scorned.
~ Song of Songs 8:7 (NRSV)
“No one has ever seen
God; but if we love one
another, God lives in us.”
~ 1 John 4:12 (TNIV)
Aheb (Heb.) =
Love as attraction.
A wide catch-all love term,
used to refer to all kinds of
attraction and desire, usually
(but not necessarily) sexual.
Hessed (Heb.) =
Love as loyalty to a person
and their good;
Steadfast commitment and
compassion; Faithful devotion.
“Though the mountains be shaken
and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love (hesed) for you
will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be
removed,”
says the LORD, who has
compassion on you.
~ Isaiah 54:10 (NIV)
I have loved (aheb) you with
an everlasting love (aheb);
therefore I have continued my
faithfulness (hesed) to you.
~ Jeremiah 31:3 (NASB)
Storge (Gk.) =
a natural, appropriate,
unforced attachment that should
bind members of a family; the
bond between parents and
children; sometimes used of king
and subjects or dogs and their
masters.
For the Father Himself
loves (phileo) you, because
you have loved (phileo) Me,
and have believed that I
came forth from the Father.
~ John 16:27 (NASB)
Phileo (Gk.) =
caring and compassionate
affection;
being fond of, as in a
friendship.
For the Father Himself
loves (phileo) you, because
you have loved (phileo) Me,
and have believed that I
came forth from the Father.
~ John 16:27 (NASB)
Eros (Gk.) =
desire; yearning; longing;
craving;
the strong desire to
possess another person (or
thing), to fuse with them.
Agape (Gk.) =
Unconditional love.
Offered because of the choice
of the giver, not because of the
attraction of the receiver.
Certainly not devoid of feeling,
just not dependant on or led by
emotion.
Woe to you Pharisees,
because you love the most
important seats in the
synagogues and greetings
in the marketplaces.
~ Luke 11:43 (TNIV)
And this is the judgment,
that the light has come into
the world, and people
loved darkness rather than
light because their deeds
were evil.
~ John 3:19 (NRSV)
“Eros is the kind of love that is
directed at someone the
beholder sees as beautiful.
When a young man or a young
woman falls in love, it is
always because the beloved is
seen as attractive.”
~ Leon Morris, Theologian
“Eros ever dwells with want.”
~ Plato, Symposium
He has showed you, O people,
what is good.
And what does the LORD
require of you?
To act justly and to
love (ahab) mercy (hesed)
and to walk humbly with your God.
~ Micah 6:8 (NIVi)
“But God demonstrates his
own love for us in this:
While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.”
~ Romans 5:8 (TNIV)
“Greater love has no one than
this, to lay down one’s life for
one’s friends.”
~ John 15:13 (TNIV)