Freedom and Love
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“But what interests us for now, is love. As I said there are many sorts of love. When you say that “you make love to someone” you often mean that you have a sexual rapport with your partner. It’s true that you’re both grown-ups now, but you have to learn that ‘love’ is not something that hurts. Love is something soft and profound. You may be very intelligent, very wise, or well educated, but if you don’t love, people will say of you that you are nasty, bad, and selfish. In other words, hate engenders quarrels. Christian people say that love hides a multitude of sins.[1]
“People; men and women are very quick to claim their autonomy, soon after they’re born. All of us, we must know, that freedom without love amounts to libertinage, pantheism. And love without freedom is a catastrophe – an imprisonment.
It’s not necessary to give all of your belongings to the poor or to give them food, or to burn your body in the name of freedom, because without love, all of this amounts to nothing – it serves no purpose. And to love, you need to love truly.
“First, in the true sense of the word, love is patient, it is full of kindness. Love has no envy, no vain thoughts. It has no false pride, it is not dishonest. It doesn’t suspect evil doing. It does not enjoy injustice but only lives in truth. Love excuses everything – let’s say, forgives everything. It believes everything, it gives hope and it endures everything.
“I said that love is strong, didn’t I? That’s because it never dies. Everything that we touch, feel, taste will end – truly everything has an end – except love. Our knowledge, too, has an end. Everything we see and hear in our churches will end. Our languages will end, etc.[2] These things are all explained by Apostle Paul.
“And what you also need to realize now is that love and sex are partners. God has placed love in the heart of men, but God particularly put it in sex. A man and a woman who love each other always end up having sex. If you don’t have sex before you’re married or during your early life; you will have sex once you’re married so that you may become one in the flesh.
“I wanted to tell you this, because even though you’re grown-ups now, you seek freedom whatever the circumstances, and you have a tendency to reject what any adult would tell you. As you heard earlier, Pamela, you can do whatever you please, but not everything you do may be useful or helpful. Try to put everything through a microscope, to sort through the things you hear or feel in order to make the right choice in life. You need to know what to keep and what to reject. I would like you to become beautiful women in every sense of the word. Do you understand what I mean?”
