C. S. Lewis wrote, "Love is not an affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the other person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."

C. S. Lewis wrote, "Love is not an affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the other person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."

~ C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1972), 49.

Unconquerable Benevolence - "we will never seek anything else but their highest good."

Loving and Forgiving Others 

"Agape, the Christian word, means unconquerable benevolence. It means that, no matter what people may do to us by way of insult or injury or humiliation, we will never seek anything else but their highest good."

~ William Barclay, The Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians, Daily Study Bible series, 1958