A really good perspective on love... Thanks Rebecca!"Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; feelings come and go. But, of course, ceasing to be "in love" need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense, love as distinct from "being in love," is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by will and deliberately strengthened by habit... reinforced by (in Christian marriage) the grace which both partners ask and receive from God. "Being in love" first moved them to promise fidelity... this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run. Being in love was the explosion that started it."
C.S. Lewis
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