Emotional Love vs. Spiritual Love

If you’ve been following me on Twitter, I’ve been reading and quoting Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s profound book “Life Together.”  Here’s a quote I hope you enjoy:

“Emotional love lives by uncontrolled and uncontrollable dark desires; spiritual love lives in the clear light of service ordered by the truth. Self-centered love results in human enslavement, bondage, rigidity; spiritual love creates the freedom of Christians under the word. Emotional love breeds artificial hothouse flowers; spiritual love creates the fruit that grows healthily under God’s open sky, according to God’s good pleasure in the rain and storm and sunshine.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer