Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. If a man lies to you, he is behaving badly and unlovingly toward you. He is disrespecting you and your relationship. The words “I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don’t kid yourself that they are.

Susan Forward, When Your Lover Is a Liar (via simply-quotes)

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I find you to be one of the most exquisite humans I’ve ever met, and knowing you is all it takes to love you. I don’t need anything in return. Getting to be acquainted with your intelligence, depth, understanding, endurance, humor, wisdom, (I could go on), is what love is, and it’s why I choose to love you so intently.

Brianna Wiest - Love, In Five Paragraphs

There are times when we are timid and shy about expressing the love we feel. For fear of embarrassing the other person, or ourselves, we hesitate to say the actual words “I love you”. So we try to communicate the idea in other words. We say “take care” or “don’t drive too fast” or “be good”. But really, these are just other ways of saying “I love you”, “You are important to me”, “I care what happens to you,” and “I don’t want you to get hurt”. They all mean “I love you”. We are sometimes very strange people. The only thing we want to say, and the one thing that we should say, is the one thing we don’t say.

Letters to Crushes (via pureblyss)

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When does being non-judgmental become an excuse not to tell someone that they’re doing something wrong?

heymissallie:

forthesakeofoursavior:

Here’s the deal:

A lot of my friends do some things that aren’t exactly, …. good things and I find myself wanting to tell them that they shouldn’t be that way or do this or whatever, but I don’t want to be judgmental.

 What do you guys think?

Rebuking those you love isn’t necessarily being judgmental. Judgment can be justified if the plank in your own eye has been removed (Matthew 7:4-5).   Besides, if you’re calling them out for something that is harming them, isn’t it worth it to get them out than to watch them fall?

I hope that helped! God bless.