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Quotes About Beloved

Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.
~ Mason Cooley
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
~ Moliere
What bothers him isn't that he's not beloved. "It bothers me," Barry says, "that I'm not even liked.
~ Bill Simmons
The prophets clearly said that Israel would always be beloved of God and that the law would be everlasting, and they also said that none would understand their meaning, but that it was veiled. How highly then should we esteem those who break the cipher for us and teach us to understand the hidden meaning
~ Blaise Pascal
And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin; my bountiful wine-press for awhile; and shall later on be my companion and my helper.
~ Bram Stoker
Don't cry,nyonda," he murmured. Phillipa took a deep breath. "What does that mean, anyway? Nyonda?" His green gaze held hers. "It's Swahili. It means 'beloved.'" A small smile touched his mouth, and he brushed her cheek again. "You do know I love you, Phillipa. To an alarming degree.
~ Suzanne Enoch
Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations? Are we all in fact unloving and unlovable? Then one is alone, and if one is alone Then lover and beloved are equally unreal And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.
~ T.S. Eliot
Beautiful as the angels you may be, my soul, but transparent, to a cunning lady of the night. Leave it alone, beloved.
~ Tanith Lee
My beloved, you have chosen me. You have been courted by my adversary, and you have chosen me. You have answered my call to the Circle, and today I call you my bride.
~ Ted Dekker
As long as we are in this life, whenever we foolishly turn our attention to those we deem not to be on a spiritual path, our Lord God tenderly touches us and blessedly calls to us, speaking to our souls: Let me be the only object of your attention, my beloved child. Focus on me alone, for I am enough for you. Rejoice in your savior and your salvation.
~ Julian of Norwich
A sore pain troubles me day and night, and I cannot sleep; I long for the meeting with my Beloved, and my father's house gives me pleasure no more. The gates of the sky are opened, the temple is revealed: I meet my husband, and leave at His feet the offering of my body and my mind.
~ Kabir
Oh beloved, seeking and searching the seeker is lost. And the ocean has fallen into the dewdrop; now it is impossible to find it.
~ Kabir
At Vipers, when the German gunners shot Afroze who chose to cry out his grief knowing the consequences rather than bear the death of a beloved in silence, a whisper burbled across the field: Ina lillahi wa inna illayhi rajiun. The men of the 40th, not all of them Muslim, whispered the words for the two dead men, and the prayer would have reached the gunners as wind on water or the sighs of ghosts.
~ Kamila Shamsie
Italian language and culture are beloved throughout the U.S.A.
~ Margaret Cuomo
Jane Austen is one of my all-time favourites.
~ Claudia Winkleman
I'm only a tool, beloved. Not your Savior
~ Francine Rivers
A relieved Colonel O'Sullivan found himself at last surrounded by his fellow countrymen; next destination: his beloved U.S. of A.
~ Frederick Forsyth
Being the beloved is our identity, the core of our existence. It is not merely a lofty thought, an inspiring idea, or one name among many. It is the name by which God knows us and the way He relates to us.
~ Brennan Manning
Failure to recognize the value of mere being with God, as the beloved, without doing anything, is to gouge the heart out of Christianity."10
~ Brennan Manning
In a revealed religion, silence with God has a value in itself and for its own sake, just because God is God. Failure to recognize the value of mere being with God, as the beloved, without doing anything, is to gouge the heart out of Christianity."10 Silent solitude makes true speech possible
~ Brennan Manning
Through no merit of ours, but by His mercy, we have been restored to a right relationship with God through the life, death, and resurrection of His beloved Son. This is the Good News, the gospel of grace.
~ Brennan Manning
Quem sou?", perguntou Merton, e respondeu: "Sou aquele que é amado por Cristo".
~ Brennan Manning
We discuss it. The basis of my personal worth is not my possessions, my talents, not esteem of others, reputation . . . not kudos of appreciation from parents and kids, not applause, and everyone telling you how important you are to the place. . . . I stand anchored now in God before whom I stand naked, this God who tells me "You are my son, my beloved one."[5] [emphasis added]
~ Brennan Manning
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
~ Brennan Manning