Too Much Love?

Love is a virtue. In fact, Mormon called charity, the pure love of God, the greatest of all virtues. Yet, most, if not all virtues, when taken to an extreme, can become a vice. So I wonder, if briefly, if it's possible to feel and/or express too much love.

The reason I wonder this only briefly is that God is said to have an infinite amount of love. Clearly, no amount of love can ever be "too much."

Yet, it's not unheard of for someone to love someone else "too much." Since we know that the amount of love isn't the actual problem, what is?

I think that, in the case of someone having "too much love," the actual problem is that they have the wrong kind of love. For example, someone could love someone else enough to want to protect them, but end up being overprotective, stifling their growth.

I think that we should try to follow God's example, not just in how much love we try to have for ourselves and others, nut also in how we express that love. Granted, God expresses His love in different ways for different people at different times, and He probably uses His infinite wisdom to know what sort of love to express at what times, but we can still try to follow His example using a combination of the best of our wisdom and as much inspiration as we can get.

God knows what kind of love we need, and He knows what kind of love we need to show to best help others. God is our perfect exemplar. By following His example, we can begin to figure out what kind of love to show at what times. But we can already be perfectly certain that there is no such thing as too much love.