It's a new week and it's also the last week of February.
Our Month of Love is gradually coming to an end and it's been great learning so much about the different kinds of love. To kick start the week, I've gathered a few quotes on Storge and Philia Love.
Storge love as we discussed in the first post of this month, has to do with the affectionate and love between parents and children. Philia love on the other hand, is a brotherly love you have for friends or siblings. Family and friendships are one of the most important things you can have.
Your relations with your family can have an impact on other relations you'll have outside the home. For example, based on the love with which your dad treats you, you may want to find a partner who has the same qualities he possesses because to you, that's how you should be loved and cared for. If you don't get along with your siblings or don't have any, you may yearn for that brotherly/sisterly bond in a friend.
We can't choose our families but we can make the most out of our relationships with them. Yes, some families aren't as great and ideal as others, and there are people who genuinely do not have the best relations with their family. But I believe God brings people our way in particular seasons for a reason. God may be using your family to teach you how to love and be patient, despite the hardships. And at the end of the day, even when you don't feel that fatherly/motherly love, God has the amount of love you need to fill that void.
In our friendships, we do get to choose. We may not make the best choices sometimes and there will be 'fake' friends or people who hurt us along the way. But we need to remember that to have good friends, we must be good friends. Yes, we may be taken advantage of sometimes because of the amount of love and care we give out, but other people's failure to cherish you shouldn't cause you to change who you are.
God also warns us to stay away from bad company because they corrupt good character (1 Corinthians 15:33). Don't let someone's popularity, wealth or looks cause you to lose your self values.
Here are 10 Quotes on the love we show to our family and friends. Hope you they inspire you!
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“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” ~Michael J. Fox
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“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” ~Desmond Tutu
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“Think of your family today and every day thereafter, don’t let the busy world of today keep you from showing how much you love and appreciate your family.” ~Josiah
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“Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones that would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.” ~Unknown
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“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” ~Brad Henry
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As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. ~Proverbs 27:17
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“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” ~Dale Carnegie
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“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” ~Muhammad Ali
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“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.” ~Gloria Naylor
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“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.” ~Oscar Wilde
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