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The Rev. Dr. Jamie Jenkins
The Rev. Dr. Jamie Jenkins is executive assistant to the Bishop of the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church and responsible for the conference's communications efforts.

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Dr. Jamie Jenkins: Love Is the Theme for Today

February 14, 2011

Today is Valentine's Day. Love is the theme of the day whether it is expressed with chocolates, flowers, or mushy lines in a greeting card.

Someone has said that love is just love, it can never be explained. Nor can it be defined. Nevertheless, I hope you find the following "love quotes" to be interesting.

--Love is everything it is cracked up to be. It is really worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)

--Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. (H. L. Mencken)

--In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. (Hans Nouwens)

--Love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. (I Peter 4:8)

--There is no remedy for love but to love more. (Henry David Thoreau)

--Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. (Charles Schultz/Charlie Brown)

--Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. (Author Unknown)

--Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. (I John 4:20)

--The most important thing in life is to learn to give out love, and to let it come in. (Morrie Schwartz)

--I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. (Mother Teresa)

--We love because God first loved us. (I John 4:19)

--I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than have a heart that cannot love. (Robert Tizon)

--Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. (I John 4:8)

--Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. (Mignon McLaughlin)

--Loving is never a waste of time. (Astrid Alauda)

--You really shouldn't say "I love you" unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. (Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Jessica)

--Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

--If I talk a lot about God and the Bible and the Church, but I fail to ask about your needs and then help you, I'm simply making a lot of empty religious noise. (David Sanford)

--You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. (Author Unknown)

--God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whoever believes in Him would not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)

I trust that the love of Christ will be seen in our actions, heard in our words, and reflected in our attitudes. Happy Valentine's Day!

Jamie Jenkins

[Taken with permission from "Monday Morning in North Georgia," Feb. 14, 2011. North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church.]