If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends; as for prophesies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in the mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Make love your aim, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
-1 Corinthians 13-14:1
Love is the only perfect thing that exists. No relationship, statistical analysis, person, final paper, or cause of greatness is more perfect than Love itself. It stands alone on its own rating, its own standard, its own truth. It is the only true and pure and perfect thing. The Truth says so.
So as I write my health paper and study international law, I can have hope that there is perfection, there is beauty, there is something worth being joyful about without submitting to senioritis. That perfection is called love, and today it stared me straight in the face through friends, loved ones, and those beautiful stars I gazed at when I returned home tonight from school.
~Esa Cita
This is awesome. Quotes from saint Carmencita. :)
ReplyDeleteYou can do it Esa Cita!
The days are flying by. Give it your best. Just like a cross country race, near the finish line where your coach shouts your name and repeats the same words over and over again: "Finish strong Carmen, finish strong!".
Awesome to say that your coach is the best coach beyond this earth :)