" Worldly love aims at pleasing everyone and saddening no one. Many call this politeness, but it is simply, self-praise and flattery." At. Anthony Mary Zaccaria

How often have we fallen into this type of behavior!  This type of love is opposite to the love that Jesus commands us in the Scriptures, the love true disciples must avoid. If true love is to be other-centered, sincere, and unconditional, then it refuses to flatter for the sake of response. We profess our love to many people in our lives, how authentic is it? If it is then whether the other receives it or responds to it, really doesn't matter, only my motive and intent. True love seeks to please God, whether it pleases the other or not. True love leaves us fulfilled in Christ. Worldly love leaves us empty, repeating the same pattern. True love is being true to self, in so far as it is seeking the real good of the other.