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Liking Is Not the Same as Loving

John Perkins, One Blood

Perkins reflects that “it is possible to like someone, and even feel deep affection for someone, without the harder work of love that seeks the other’s good at cost.” Liking is preferential. Love, in the biblical sense, is willed commitment that persists when preference fades or difference remains.

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Affection and liking can exist without the deeper commitment love requires—especially across difference.

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