It is all nonsense talking about love that gives and asks for no return.

We only put up with that when we cannot get the other, and why?
Why should we think it the grandest thing to give what we would scorn to take?
You, for instance--you would rather have a person you loved do nothing for you, yet enjoy you, always demanding your affection and presence, than that he or she should be endlessly generous, and indifferent to what you give in return." "Yes." He blushed as he said it.
"Well then, it is cant to speak as if the love that asks for no return is the noblest.

Now listen.

I have something very solemn to say, because it is only by the greatest things that we learn what the little ought to be.

When God came to earth to live for awhile, it was for the sake of His happiness and ours; He loved us in the way that I have been saying; He was not content only to bless us, He wanted us to enjoy Him.