WELCOME TO THE MEETING HOUSE

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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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Much or even most of what has been popularly
written about love is nonsense. Douglas N.
Morgan, Philosopher
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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.
Finck, 1891
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Young people are cynical about love.
Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the
disappointed and betrayed heart. Bell Hooks,
Poet Author
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Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly
understood or measured or limited within the
framework of words. M. Scott Peck,
Psychiatrist
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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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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and
necessary, yet no one can agree on what it
is. Diane Ackerman, Historian
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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,
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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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 hes
through hell still know all that he has
taught. Leo Buscaglia
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The simple but observable fact is that the more
you love, the more you are able to love. Dr.
Joyce Brothers
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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. Rainer Maria
Rilke
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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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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 87 (NRSV)
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No one has ever seen God but if we love one
another, God lives in us. 1 John 412 (TNIV)
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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.
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Hessed (Heb.) Love as loyalty to a person
and their good Steadfast commitment and
compassion Faithful devotion.
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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 5410 (NIV)
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I have loved (aheb) you with an everlasting love
(aheb) therefore I have continued my
faithfulness (hesed) to you. Jeremiah 313
(NASB)
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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.
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For the Father Himself loves (phileo) you,
because you have loved (phileo) Me, and have
believed that I came forth from the Father.
John 1627 (NASB)
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Phileo (Gk.) caring and compassionate
affection being fond of, as in a friendship.
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For the Father Himself loves (phileo) you,
because you have loved (phileo) Me, and have
believed that I came forth from the Father.
John 1627 (NASB)
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Eros (Gk.) desire yearning longing
craving the strong desire to possess another
person (or thing), to fuse with them.
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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.
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Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the most
important seats in the synagogues and greetings
in the marketplaces. Luke 1143 (TNIV)
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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
319 (NRSV)
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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
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Eros ever dwells with want. Plato,
Symposium
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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 68 (NIVi)
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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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Greater love has no one than this, to lay down
ones life for ones friends. John 1513
(TNIV)
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