Jesus, Shakespeare and Love

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
(Shakepeare Sonnet 116)


Love sought is good, but given unsought better.(Shakepeare, Twelfth Night, 3.1.156)

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. (i Jn 4:10)

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! (I John 3:1)

while Man talk eloquently about love, make extravagrant declarations of love, write about the compelling emotion...

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Rom 5:8)

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. (1 Jn 3:16)

God is love. (1 Jn 4:16)