“ Love is something that one person has for another person. ”
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (1952). copy citation
Author | C. S. Lewis |
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Source | Mere Christianity |
Topic | love |
Date | 1952 |
Language | English |
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Note | Adapted from a series of BBC radio talks made between 1942 and 1944 |
Weblink | https://www.dacc.edu/assets/pdfs/PCM/merechristianitylewis.pdf |
Context
“All sorts of people are fond of repeating the Christian statement that ‘God is love’. But they seem not to notice that the words ‘God is love’ have no real meaning unless God contains at least two Persons. Love is something that one person has for another person. If God was a single person, then before the world was made, He was not love. Of course, what these people mean when they say that God is love is often something quite different: they really mean ‘Love is God’.”
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