Love is more than an emotion

God is love and love is God! God wills to share with us His divine nature, to
impart to us the fullness of His love. God does not place any limits upon the gift
of His love, but we can only receive Him to the measure we are willing to open our
hearts and allow Him to enter in. The love we receive from God then, is totally
dependant upon us, upon how well disposed we are to receiving it. Gods love then
takes action within the soul of a person to enlighten, transform and inspire it to
do good works. Human love then, is more than an emotion, it is the essence of God
within the soul, promoting action towards the good.

The definition of Christian love according to St Thomas Aquinas (a Doctor of the

Church) is: To will the good of another. So human love is not just an emotion, it
is an act of the will, inspired by God who is love, which engages our heart to
such an extent, that it creates within us an emotion which we commonly call love.