Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
C.S. Lewis
I agree with Lewis. But then, by what name are we to call the affectionate feeling that accompanies this steady wish for the person’s ultimate good?
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Love+.
This topic will be addressed in tonight’s mountain quote btw. Thinking about it last night...
:-)
Or you might want to read or listen to C.S. Lewis on:
The Four Loves
The Four Loves was Lewis’ look at some of the different loves described in Greek thought:
familial or affectionate love (storge); friendship (philia); romantic love (eros); and spiritual love
(agape) in the light of Christian commentary on ordinate loves. Though it is “probably
impossible” to love any human being too much, we must, says Lewis, make sure we do not “love
him too much in proportion to our love for God.” As Lewis notes, it is always “the smallness of
our love for God, not the greatness of our love for man, that constitutes the inordinacy.”