WELCOME TO THE MEETING HOUSE

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To be in the presence of even the meanest,
lowest, most repulsive specimen of humanity is
still to be closer to God than when looking up
into a starry sky or at a beautiful sunset. For
we cannot really love a sunset we can love only
a person. Mike Mason, Author
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The deepest urge in every human heart is to be
in relationship with someone who absolutely
delights in us. Larry Crabb, Psychologist
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Love makes us who we are, and who we can
become. Thomas Lewis, M.D., Researcher
Author
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In love the soul acts in accordance with its
nature, because it is created to live in
connection with other souls. Johannes
Pedersen, Theologian
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True love is not a feeling by which we are
overwhelmed. It is a committed thoughtful
decision. M. Scott Peck, Psychiatrist
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Love is a greased pig. No sooner do you get a
hold on it than it squirms and jiggles and runs
away. Sam Keen, Philosopher Theologian
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Falling in love is a sort of illusion which in
no way constitutes real love. It is a trick
that our genes pull on our otherwise perceptive
mind to hoodwink or trap us into marriage. M.
Scott Peck, Psychiatrist
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True love will lead the beloved to the best
possible path. And that will mean that from time
to time disciplinary measures will be taken.
Leon Morris, Theologian
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Love doesnt really make the world go round.
It just makes people dizzy so it looks like
it. Martha Lupton
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love
anything, and your heart will certainly be wrong
and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure
of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to
no one, not even to an animal. C. S. Lewis,
Philosopher
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The only place outside of Heaven that you can be
perfectly safe from all the dangers and
perturbations of love is Hell. C. S. Lewis,
Philosopher
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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
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Love is as love does. Eric Fromm,
Psychoanalyst
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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. Bell Hooks, Author
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Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of
little faith is also of little love. Eric
Fromm, Psychologist
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But God demonstrates his own love for us in
this While we were still sinners, Christ died
for us. Romans 58 (TNIV)
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Emotions
The Will
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Of all the misconceptions about love the most
powerful and pervasive is the belief that
falling in love is love or at least one of the
manifestations of love. M. Scott Peck,
Psychiatrist
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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. M.
Scott Peck, Psychiatrist
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Falling in love a temporary and partial
collapse of ego boundaries.
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Love is not doing what makes you feel good, but
doing what IS good in spite of how you feel.
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Love is the choice to value someone and to treat
them according to that value.
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Love is other-centredness.
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Love is the will to extend ones self for the
purpose of nurturing ones own or anothers
spiritual growth. M. Scott Peck, Psychiatrist
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Our Definition Love is the will to extend ones
self for the purpose of actively honouring the
value of a person.
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Love, then is a form of work or a form of
courage. If an act is not one of work or
courage, then it is not an act of love. There
are no exceptions. M. Scott Peck, Psychiatrist
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Our Definition Love is the will to extend ones
self for the purpose of actively honouring the
value of a person.
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A new command I give you Love one another. As I
have loved you, so you must love one another. By
this everyone will know that you are my
disciples, if you love one another. John
1334-35 (TNIV)
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Intellect
Emotion
Will
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Intellect
Emotion
Will
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Emotion
Will
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Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people
love each other only when they are quite capable
of living without each other but choose to live
with each other. M. Scott Peck, Psychiatrist
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Allowing yourself to be dependent on another
person is the worst possible thing you can do to
yourself. You would be better off being
dependent on heroin. As long as you have a
supply of it, heroin will never let you down if
its there, it will always make you happy. But
if you expect another person to make you happy,
youll be endlessly disappointed. M. Scott
Peck, Psychiatrist
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HEART leb (Heb.) kardia (Gk.).   The centre
of a person someones deepest being. Can
express emotion, but more centrally the place of
the true will and being of a person.
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This people draw near with their words And honor
Me with their lip service, But they remove their
hearts far from Me, And their reverence for Me
consists of tradition learned by rote. Isaiah
2913 (NASB)
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Your beauty should not come from outward
adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing
of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it
should be that of your inner self kruptos
anthropos kardias ho, the unfading beauty of a
gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth
in God's sight. 1 Peter 33-4 (TNIV)
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"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind
kardia has conceived what God has prepared for
those who love him." 1 Corinthians 29 (NIV)
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For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper
than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even
to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow
it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the
heart. Hebrews 412 (TNIV)
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But because of your stubbornness and your
unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath
against yourself for the day of God's wrath, when
his righteous judgment will be revealed.
Romans 25 (TN IV)
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If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord,"
and believe in your heart that God raised him
from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with
your heart that you believe and are justified,
and it is with your mouth that you profess your
faith and are saved. Romans 109-10 (TNIV)
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The heart is more deceitful than all else And is
desperately sick Who can understand it?
Jeremiah 179 (NASB)
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KIDNEYS kileyah (Heb.) nephros (Gk.). The
seat of our emotions, passions, desires.
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But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, Who
tries the feelings kileyah and the heart, Let
me see Your vengeance on them, For to You have I
committed my cause. Jeremiah 1120 (NASB)
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The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken
spirit a broken and contrite heart, O God, you
will not despise. Psalm 5117 (NRSV)
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Turn to me now, while there is time! Give me
your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping, and
morning. Dont tear your clothing in your grief
instead, tear your hearts. Return to the LORD
your God, for he is gracious and merciful.
Joel 212-13 (NIV)
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Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a
right spirit within me. Psalm 5110 (NLT)
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