C.S. Lewis quote-of-the-week

“And, of course, the promise [the marriage vow], made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits one to bring true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions; no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way…’Being in love’ first moved them to promise fidelity; this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run; being in love was the explosion that started it.”

--Mere Christianity, book 3, ch. 6

In a word,
love is
an action
far more than
a feeling...