Tuesday, July 6, 2021

July 6 / C.S. Lewis

 On love

There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.

From The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III
Compiled in Words to Live By


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