Never heard it said better.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
From 1 Corinthians 13
3 comments:
I actually happened to see "Faith Love Hope" written on the walls of the church in Stanford when i visited few days back. I would not have probably remembered seeing it had I not read your post earlier :)
@abi: *what* a passage no! am pretty sure the words were taken from here only :)
It is the cornerstone of christianity,but has been neglected so bad,especially by the super religious sorts(those peripheral ones that march to church as a ritual)
Its true: faith without love is nothing.
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