“Love, not use” Wallpaper
This has been my wallpaper for the last few weeks:
Tag: Use
Wise Words on Wednesday: Wanting a woman
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he ‘wants a woman.’ Strictly speaking, a woman is just what he does not want.
“He wants a pleasure for which a woman happens to be the necessary piece of apparatus. How much he cares about the woman as such may be gauged by his attitude to her five minutes after fruition (one does not keep the carton after one has smoked the cigarettes).
“Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.”
– C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Magic Mike & The opposite of love
This morning while I was having my much-needed coffee, I watched the following homily. It’s a tough, uncompromising comparison between the movie Magic Mike and the message of the Gospel concerning the dignity of the human person:
“The opposite of love is use” – Pope John Paul II
(Thanks to Fear Not Little Flock for this)