"Love is always doing the very best for the object of one's love. This is what love is and what love does, and there is nothing mysterious about that... What is it that makes us want to do the best for the one we love?...love recognizes a unique value in the beloved and chooses to affirm the value of the beloved always...real love is always a choice backed up by action."
"C.S. Lewis showed the difference between agape and the natural loves by using the picture of a garden. He describes the natural loves as a garden that would soon run to weeds if left alone. This is inevitable because of self-centerdness, willfulness, and the other sins resulting from the fall. Agape love acts as the rakes, hoes, shears, plant food, and weed killer employed by a skilled gardener to keep the garden thriving, orderly, and beautiful. When God planted the garden of our nature and caused the flowering, fruiting loves to grow there, He set our will to tend them, to watch over them and care for them as a wise gardener should. This operation of the will is agape love - a knowledgeable and skillful love always concerned with doing what is best for the beloved." - Ed Wheat
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