Clay Pigeon
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Writing on the topic is voluminous and endless and the best of it immortal. None have wreathed the subject in words wiser than these of the Apostle Paul:
(from The King James, when "charity" was the languages highest concept of "love")
Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity I am become as sounding like brass or a tinkling cymbal and though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith so I could remove mountains and have not charity I am nothing, and though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity it profit me nothing.
Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, does nnot behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth but where there be prophecies they will fall; whether the be tongues they shall cease; whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away.
For we know now in part and we propheciy in part but when that which is perfect shall come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child but when I became a man I put away childish things. For now we see as through a glass darkly but then face to face; now I know in part but then shall shall I know even as also I am known.
And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three but the greatest of these is charity.
Chapter 13 of the first Epistle to the church at Corinth
(from The King James, when "charity" was the languages highest concept of "love")
Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity I am become as sounding like brass or a tinkling cymbal and though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith so I could remove mountains and have not charity I am nothing, and though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity it profit me nothing.
Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, does nnot behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth but where there be prophecies they will fall; whether the be tongues they shall cease; whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away.
For we know now in part and we propheciy in part but when that which is perfect shall come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child but when I became a man I put away childish things. For now we see as through a glass darkly but then face to face; now I know in part but then shall shall I know even as also I am known.
And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three but the greatest of these is charity.
Chapter 13 of the first Epistle to the church at Corinth
Agape love. Well you’ve both convinced me. Son of a gun I learned a lot today. All about repairing lawnmowers and what the Bible really meant about the deepest kind of love. All in one day. So is it wrong to love my lawnmower now that I understand it and fixed it and know it intimately, inside and out? 
