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Love Is a Verb
by
Gary Chapman
Dr. Gary Chapman has spent his life helping people communicate love more effectively and in turn build more satisfying and lasting relationships. His book The Five Love Languages is a regular on the New York Times Best Sellers list--even after being in print for fifteen years--and has made the term "love language" a part of everyday speech.
Love Is a Verb tak
...moreHardcover, Large Print, 353 pages
Published
October 2nd 2009
by Thorndike Press
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Dr. Gary Chapman has spent his life helping people communicate love more effectively and in turn build more satisfying and lasting relationships. His book The Five Love Languages is a regular on the New York Times Best Sellers list--even after being in print for fifteen years--and has made the term "love language" a part of everyday speech.
Love Is a Verb takes his teaching to the next level. Rather than a typical marriage self-help book filled with lengthy explanations of p...more
Love Is a Verb takes his teaching to the next level. Rather than a typical marriage self-help book filled with lengthy explanations of p...more
Love is a Verb by Gary Chapman is subtitled Stories of What Happens When Love Comes Alive, and this book is full of love! In a format similar to the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, Chapman has collected several stories about how the power of love has completely transformed lives. Marriages reborn, children who teach about the true meaning of love, and love even through illness, every story is an illustration about how God uses other people to teach us how to love and how He loves us. After each...more
Lots of good reminders about how we have control over what we do in our relationships--for good or bad. I prefer The Five Love Languages for learning about love, but this was a good reminder of how to use that information and apply it. Love is an action word, not something that passively happens. These stories were all good reminders.
you don't need to fall with love.for it is not a place or any circumstance.it's a verb.do the love.it won't hurt you. people that the one hurt you...not love.so if you have heartache that is caused by love, trust me, it isn't the love. for the love is kind, patient, not envy.
If you like the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, or reading those Readers' Digest stories, you may enjoy this book. The book began with "love" in a variety of settings, but about halfway through became only about marital love. I started to tire of the "rekindle the love" stories. This is one to keep in the bathroom to read from time to time; it's not a "read it from cover to cover" sort of book.
There are some interesting personal stories here. One that sticks is about a woman who had an emotionally disturbed acquaintance dropped off at her door. Gary Chapman comments on each story and relates most of them to a biblical passage - a bit too preachy for me.
Stories in the individual voices of the writers who experienced them are inspiring, although there is a certain predictability to having them in this collection. Chapman summarizing in counselor-speak what these authors have just said in their own way is actually annoying. Sometimes the moral of the story does, and should, tell itself.
This book contained nice, anecdotal short stories that demonstrated--yep, you guessed it--love, but they didn't engage me for long. I made it through 3 or 4 of the short stories before I gave up. While the stories were undoubtedly true and admittedly inspirational at times, the fact that they were read by (oh yeah, this was the audio book format I “read”) professional actors took a way a bit from the authenticity. For non-fiction like this, I think I’d prefer to hear it read by the author. If I...more
You can read my review here: http://quivermom.blogspot.com/2009/05/lo...
Great book on practical love in marriages, friendship and even familial relationships.
enjoyable and instructive collection of touching stories about love in action
It was like Chicken Soup for the Soul with his commentary and the end of every story.
Meh. Very chicken soup for the soul - ish.
A pretty good read that has a lot of different stories involving love with author comments at the end of each story.
A little too cutesy for my tastes, but a good reminder that love flourishes everywhere.
A little too cutesy for my tastes, but a good reminder that love flourishes everywhere.
I forced myself to finish this book. I wish I could say I learned something, felt inspired, or encouraged, but all I was left with was the knowledge that relationships are hard everywhere and on everyone. Not really a "feel good" book.
Think "Guideposts" magazine in a book format. I enjoyed the short stories.
current audio book for my car
a book full of stories about love. If you love the "chicken soup for the christian soul" genre you'll LOVE this... ps i OWN ZERO chicken soup books
Dengan plot yang sama seperti buku laris - Chicken Soup for The Soul, dengan penyimpulan dari setiap bab nya oleh Gary Chapman (Penulis Best Seller - Lima Bahasa Kasih).. Dari buku ini kita bisa belajar, makna mendalam tentang mengasihi / mencintai sebagai suatu tindakan bukan sekedar perasaan..
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