- Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough
good.
- By itself it makes that is heavy light; and it
bears evenly all that is uneven.
- It carries a burden which is no burden; it will
not be kept back by anything low and mean; it desires to be free
from all wordly affections, and not to be entangled by any outward
prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.
- Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble,
attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of
impossibility. It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it
completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he
who does not love would faint and lie down.
- Though weary, it is not tired; though pressed it
is not straitened; though alarmed, it is not confounded; but as a
living flame it forces itself upwards and securely passes through
all.
- Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient,
faithful, prudent, and manly.