"Love is a Feeling to be Learned"

This is a small little booklet. It is only a short 37 pages long, but is not short on its message. I read it when I was still single. In a world which often puts happiness as synonymous with good feelings, the late Trobisch drives home the point that love is much greater. It covers a wide variety of emotions. We need to be constantly educated on what love actually is. We are called to learn what love is, and in this instance, feelings too have to be learned. I love this quote. It is applicable for both married and unmarried.

"Love is a feeling to be learned.
It is anxiety and contentment.
It is deep yearning and hostility.
It is pleasure and it is pain.
There is not one without the other.
Happiness is only a part of love.
Suffering belongs to love also.
This is the mystery of love,
its beauty and its burden.

Love is a feeling to be learned. "

[Walter Trobisch, Love is a Feeling to be Learned, Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 1971, p9]

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