“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.” C. S. Lewis

"If it doesn't break your heart, it isn't love. If it doesn't break your heart, it's not enough. It's when you're breaking down with your insides coming out, that's when you find out what your heart is made of." Jonathan Foreman

I don't agree with all the theology of the people quoted above, but their words are true. The meaning of the word love is so lost in this current world. Love is not about gratification, but sacrifice. Those who believe that love is something only found in romantic relationships have never known love. Love is found in Jesus Christ, and only though Him can love ever be known or expressed. Love will always bring pain. Whether it is pain from someone you love wronging you, or pain from failing to live out the love you have for Christ as you want to. But love is just as necessary for psychological survival as it is for spiritual survival.

"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." Saint John in I John 4:10